REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Olivier (2000)
Redgraves in The Cherry Orchard from 2000 "Throughout the history of this district there've beenonly two kinds of people: those who own the landand those who work on it.... In…
Redgraves in The Cherry Orchard from 2000 "Throughout the history of this district there've beenonly two kinds of people: those who own the landand those who work on it.... In…
In Bring Up the Bodies we see that Henry's marriage to Anne is already in difficulties as she fails to deliver alive the longed for son. Henry, without the male heir, starts to speculate that he has been influenced by witchcraft and in this world of shifting power, Thomas Cromwell remarkably detaches himself from Anne Boleyn and survives. As he says, "Our requirements have changed and the facts must change with them." Anne loses her head after, along with a number of men, she is accused of adultery and therefore treason, although historians are largely convinced that Anne was innocent of these charges.
Concluding her trilogy which started with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, with Ben Miles, has adapted this final part The Mirror and the Light. Ask not where Mike Poulton is, the award winning author/adaptor of so many RSC conversions from page to stage and indeed the adaptor of the first two novels. He was unavailable.