Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power in the land. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings gigantic ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.

Famous in its own day as Shakespeare's most sumptuous and spectacular play, Henry VIII is a gorgeous pageant of masques and royal ceremony; a blaze of fireworks, cannonfire, red satin and cloth-of-gold. But within the passages of grandeur works the mind of the mature Shakespeare: psychological and political insight, language of great depth and power and, in the figures of Wolsey and Katherine, two of his most vivid and memorable characters.

Ticket information

Ticket price: 3600 HUF

Tickets are available at the Cassa of the Urania National Filmtheater (open every day 11:00-20:30, Credit Cards are accepted) and in the Ticket Sale System of Jegymester (available in English too)

www.jegymester.hu

Series sponsor

Director: Mark Rosenblatt

Cast

Michael Bertenshaw as Campeius
Sam Cox as Lord Chamberlain
John Cummins as Thomas Cromwell
Ben Deery as Abergavenny
Mary Doherty as Patience
John Dougall Gardiner as Bishop of Winchester
Kate Duchêne as Queen Katherine
Will Featherstone as Earl of Surrey
Peter Hamilton Dyer as Duke of Norfolk
Anthony Howell as Duke of Buckingham/Lord Chancellor
Colin Hurley as Thomas Cranmer
Amanda Lawrence as Old Lady
Miranda Raison as Ann Bullen
Dominic Rowan as Henry VIII
Dickon Tyrrell as Duke of Suffolk
Clive Wood as Cardinal Wolsey

Musicians:
Philip Hopkins, Martin Pope, Caroline Radcliffe, Richard Thomas, Adrian Woodward

Creative

Author: William Shakespeare
Director: Mark Rosenblatt
Design: Angela Davies
Composer: Nigel Hess