Staging the Henrician Court - RSC Director Gregory Thompson and actor Peter Kenny
Evening Lecture - Hampton Court Palace
Time: 6.30pm - 8pm
Cost: £12 / £10 HRP members
Staging the Henrician Court is a collaborative research project between Historic Royal Palaces and Oxford Brookes University funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Over the course of 2009-10, this project has seen two court dramas staged in the Great Hall that were performed at the Henrician court: The Play of the Weather (1533) and Magnyfycence (c1515), as well as a site-specific promenade theatre piece entitled A Little Neck.
Professor Thomas Betteridge from the Department of English and Drama at Oxford Brookes has been HRP’s theatrical advisor on these public performances and he shares the unique challenges of staging Henrician drama in its original setting, alongside the experiences of the director of The Play of the Weather, Gregory Thompson, and actor Peter Kenny. This is a rare opportunity to discover the mechanics of entertaining one of England’s most demanding monarchs!
This event includes a drinks reception.
