SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
Comic drama in 2 acts
Translated from English by Evita Mamaja
Premiere on 30 November, 2019
The young poet and playwright Will Shakespeare experiences a creative crisis. The unwritten comedy has already been sold to two theatres, but the play itself doesn’t exist. Neither threats from the theatre owners’, nor support from the best friend Kit Marlowe can help. He needs inspiration. And a muse.
The beautiful and rich Viola de Lesseps is in love with poetry and theatre. She knows by heart all the plays of the young author. Unfortunately, it is forbidden that women could play on stage. But where could Will Shakespeare find a better actor for his “Romeo and Juliet” – the most beautiful love story in the world?
Cast: Dainis Grūbe (Will Shakespeare, poet and playwright), Ieva Segliņa (Viola de Lesseps), Lauris Subatnieks (Kit Marlowe), Olga Dreģe (Nurse), Ģirts Ķesteris (Lord Wessex, betrothed to Viola), Juris Bartkevičs or Imants Strads (Henslowe, owner of the Rose Theatre), Pēteris Liepiņš (Richard Burbage, lead actor of the Chamberlain’s Men), Artis Robežnieks (Fennyman), Indra Briķe (Queen Elizabeth I), Dainis Gaidelis (Edmund Tilney, the Lord Chamberlain), Gunārs Placēns (Sir Robert de Lesseps, Viola’s father), Gints Grāvelis (Ralph, novice actor), Mārtiņš Počs (Robin, novice actor), Mārtiņš Upenieks (Adam, novice actor), Kaspars Zāle (John Webster, street urchin), Pēteris Gaudiņš (Wabash, Henslowe’s tailor), Lauris Dzelzītis (Ned Alleyn, lead actor of the Admiral’s Men), Toms Treinis (Sam, actor), Anete Krasovska, Inga Krasovska (Molly & Kate, tavern whores / Courtiers), Juris Strenga (Boatman)
Director – Rolands Atkočūns
Set designer – Mārtiņš Vilkārsis
Costume designer – Ilze Vītoliņa
Composer – Giedrius Puskunigis
Choreographer – Inga Krasovska
Video artist – Artis Dzērve
Lighting designer – Oskars Pauliņš
Fighting instructor – Uldis Veispals
Originally produced on the West End by Disney Theatrical Productions & Sonia Friedman Productions, directed by Declan Donnellan, and designed by Nick Ormerod