Production: Sweet William - Michael Pennington
Dates: no dates available

Celebs:
Gabrielle Drake
Edward Fox
Joanna David
Nichola McAuliffe
Rohan McCullough

Description:

Michael Pennington presents a highly original one-man Shakespeare show. It weaves together many aspects of Shakespeare’s life and work. Pennington also performs some of the great and lesser known speeches and reflects on his long and international experiences as a director and leading actor.

In his brilliant one man show Michael Pennington combines his performance skills with textual scholarship and practical knowledge to give us as well-rounded a portrait of Shakespeare and his art as you could hope for in two hours... Whether as the boy Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale, Mistress Quickly or the senile Shallow and Silence in Henry IV, he embraces the infinite variety found in Shakespeare’s world.  Michael Billington, The Guardian

Press comments from the Chester Literature Festival:
“Sweet William was one of the highlights of the 2006 Festival. It was not only exquisitely performed, but also offered illuminating insights into Shakespeare’s life and themes.

Pennington’s huge experience of performing and directing Shakespeare is distilled in Sweet William. The result is a tour-de-force, delivered with the apparent effortlessness which only a great actor could create.”

Press comments from The Winchester Festival:
“Fascinating and informative… A masterclass on our master playwright.”