Play For The Heart - The Death Of Shakespeare, A [Drama On 3]

Playwright Nick Warburton imaginatively recreates what might have happened on Shakespeare's last day, with a series of encounters filtered through his fevered imagination. What do his many visitors want? Who is the pale boy? And the man with bloody hands?

Recorded entirely on location in Mary Arden's farm and touching on all aspects of his life, it's a play about memory and regret, life and art, fidelity and legacy and it gives new insights into the inner life of the greatest writer of all time.

William Shakespeare - Robert Lindsay

John Fletcher - Oliver Chris

William Harvey - Gwilym Lee

Unnamed gentleman - James Lailey

Ann - Susan Jameson

Susanna Hall - Nicola Ferguson

John Hall .....Nick Underwood

Hamnet - Sam Bough

Voice - Brian Protheroe

Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow.

Robert Lindsay and Oliver Chris star in a dramatic re-imagining of Shakespeare's last day.

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