Timon of Athens

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production of Timon of Athens. Directed by Gregory Doran with Michael Pennington as Timon.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 23 Sep 1999
Duration: 140 mins

Director

Gregory Doran

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Duke Ellington; John Woolf

Production Design

Stephen Brimson Lewis

Cast

Notes: The Shakespeare Centre also holds a 30min videotape recorded 29 June 1999 in which director Gregory Doran and designer Stephen Brimson Lewis discuss and explain the set model.
General: The costuming has been described as a gaudy parody of Jacobean dress. Doran made full use of the ‘Such Sweet Thunder’ score which Duke Ellington wrote to commission for the 1957 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.
History: The press night was postponed from 11 August to 24 August after Alan Bates withdrew from playing the title role because of ill health.
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: Jackson, Russell Shakespeare Quarterly (2000), pp217-229 (esp. 221-27).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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