The Spanish Tragedy [Drama On 3]

A new adaption for BBC Radio 3 of Thomas Kydd's bloody Elizabethan revenge play.

The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

Abridged and adapted by Pauline Harris and Emma Smith

Spain is in the middle of a peace treaty with Portugal, when Marshall Hieronimo is forced down a brutal path of vengeance from which there is no return. This bold and visceral adaptation is intercut with contemporary music in this new BBC Audio Drama production. It powerfully explores the morality of revenge, the stages of grief, and violence, and the poetry of extreme emotion.

Hieronimo - Robert Glenister

Lorenzo - Sandy Grierson

Bel-Imperia - Joanna Vanderham

King of Spain/Bazardo - Michael Birtenshaw

Duke of Castille/Viceroy of Portugal - Jonathan Keeble

Ghost of Andrea/The Executioner/Portuguese Ambassador - John Lightbody

Revenge/Maid to Isabella - Jessica Turner

Isabella - Emma Cunniffe

Horatio - Will Kirk

Pedringano - Don Gilet

Balthazar - Josh Bryant-Jones

Alexandro/Paige - Tom Kiteley

Requim song composed and performed by Jules Maxwell, Lina Rodriques, and James Chapman

Introduction by Professor Emma Smith from Hertford College, Oxford

Sound by Keith Graham and Alison Craig

Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris

A world premiere audio drama of Thomas Kyd's bloody Elizabethan revenge play for Radio 3.

Production co-ordinator - Jonathan Powell

Bold new audio drama of Thomas Kyd's bloody Elizabethan revenge play for Radio 3.

Hieronimo pursues the murderers of his son Horatio and takes revenge. Known as the first Revenger's Tragedy; this great play inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet.