A Meeting in Valladolid (Setkání ve Valladolidu, 1991)

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Duben 8, 2024

Anthony Burges. Rozhlasová hra. Hudba Philip Pickett. Režie Walter Acosta.

Osoby a obsazení: Don Miguel (Brett Usher), Richard Burbage (Johathan Oliver), Cervantes (Miguel Peñaranda), Sir Philip Spender / biskup valladolidský (Norman Jones), Susanna Hall / Anne Shakespeare (Petra Markham), William Shakespeare (Robert Glenister), Robert Armin (Stephen Garlick), Lope de Vega (Stephen Thorne), dr. Guzman / dr. John Hall (Timothy Carlton), Jack Rice (Valentine Pelka), Earl z Rutlandu (William Simons).

Nastudovala BBC v roce 1991. Premiéra 10. 4. 1991 (BBC Radio 3, 21:00 h.; 95 min.).

Česká inscenace

Pozn.: Radio play by Anthony Burgess based on his short story of the same name. The story tells of a meeting between Shakespeare and Cervantes while the King’s Men entertain at an Anglo-Spanish peace conference in 1606. Titus Andronicus is a flop and Shakespeare, inspired by seeing a bullfight, rewrites Hamlet and doubles its length, introducing Falstaff as a character. At the close of the play Hamlet ascends the throne. Cervantes is unimpressed and a disillusioned Shakespeare contracts syphilis on the way home and dies from the disease ten years later. A Spanish negotiator insists that the First Folio must be published to make a trilogy with the Bible and Don Quixote. [With acknowledgement for plot detail to Susanne Greenhalgh].

Lit.: Greenhalgh, Susanne: ‘Listening to Shakespeare,‘ Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher’s Guide (London: Wallflower Press, 2009).