Cymbeline

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1987 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Cymbeline. Directed by Bill Alexander with Harriet Walter as Imogen.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 26 May 1988
Duration: 210 mins

Notes: A recording was also made 31 August 1989 (with Naomi Wirthner as Imogen).
General: "Musicians in shadows play the chimes and steel drums ranged against the fourth wall. Otherwise the set is austere and the costumes discreetly polychronistic, from classical tunics to puffed Tudor doublets and a caddish Regency waistcoat (for the arch-cad Iachimo)." Martin Hoyle, Financial Times (March 23 1988).
History: Press night at The Pit 22 March 1988. The production opened at The Other Place 12 November 1987. The RSC recording is from a performance at the Pit.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Wells, Stanley Shakespeare Survey 42 (1990) pp 129-48 (esp 139-42). Billington, Michael The Guardian (24 March 1988) p21.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

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