'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
'The Big Secret Live - I Am Shakespeare - Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show!'
'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
This amateur production of 'I AM SHAKESPEARE' is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
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
- Samuel Grant : Sergeant Freeman / His Twin
- Kelly Davidson : Lady Mary Sidney
- Alan Fenn : Telephone Salesman
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 Design
- 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
- Rowena Tye : Props
- Paul Chokran : Set Paint
- Judy Talbot : Set Paint
- Michael Waterson : Set Build
- Christopher Hernon : Set Build
- Kevin Woods : Set Build
- Terry Cornwall : Set Build
- Simon Sharpe : Set Build
- Mandy Sutton : Set Build
- Jenson Jones : Set Build
- Terry Rahilly : Set Build
- Frances Dixon : Set Build
- Sarah Basford : Set Build
- Ellen Sharkey : Sound Team
- Karl Stafford : Lighting Team
- Sarah Basford : Lighting Team
- Alan Fenn : Choreography
- Paul Forey : Original music
- Mandy Sutton : Projection/Technical Advisor