'The Big Secret Live - I Am Shakespeare - Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show!'
Oct 13th to 20th 2018
Written by Mark Rylance
Directed by Anne-marie Greene
'I am Shakespeare' is the first play written by acclaimed actor and director Sir Mark Rylance. It’s an exuberant and comic exploration of the Shakespeare authorship debate. The action takes place on one night in the garage of geeky teacher Frank Charlton, from where he runs an internet chat-room show called ‘Who’s There?’. On the night in question he asks his international audience “Who really wrote the plays of William Shakespeare?”. By the power of stormy weather and the internet, various individuals who claim authorship turn up from the past, with hilarious consequences.
Press Comment
“Witty, gloriously funny and wonderfully well-written . . . .the best thing I have seen in years” The Stage
Directors
- Anne-marie Greene : Director
Cast
- Jon Elves : Frank Charlton
- Paul Forey : Barry Wild
- Alan Fenn : William Shakspar
- Steve Brown : Francis Bacon
- Pete Meredith : Edward de Vere
- TBA : Sam Grant - Sergeant Freeman / His Twin / Telephone Salesman
- Kelly Davidson : Lady Mary Sidney
Crew
- Gennie Holmes : Stage Manager
- Nikki Gabriel : Assistant Stage Manager
- Liz Hodgkiss : Prompt
- Simon Sharpe : Design Team
- Terry Cornwall : Design Team
- Mandy Sutton : Design Team
- Dave Cornish : Sound i/c
- George Rippon : Lighting Design
- Pete Gillam : Projection / Technical Adviser
- Pam Coleman : Wardrobe
- Frances Dixon : Props
- Sara Russell : Assistant Director
- Debra Relton Elves : Wardrobe
- Steve Brown : Trailer and Filming