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Shakespeare in Love (play)

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Date premiered
  
July 2014

Original language
  
English

Playwright
  
Lee Hall

Genre
  
Play

Place premiered
  
London

First performance
  
July 2014

Lyricist
  
Paddy Cunneen

Adapted from
  
Shakespeare in Love

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Written by
  
Lee Hall, adapted from the screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman

Characters
  
Viola De Lesseps, Hugh Fennyman

Similar
  
Lee Hall plays, Dramas

Shakespeare in love on stage official trailer


Shakespeare in Love is a play produced by Disney Theatrical Productions and Sonia Friedman Productions and adapted by Lee Hall from the film of the same title. It opened at the Noel Coward Theatre in London in July 2014 with running time of 2 hours and 40 minutes.

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Shakespeare in Love played to sold out audiences during the 2016 Stratford (Ontario, Canada) Festival season. The director of the production was Declan Donnellan, with the rest of the original creative team from London show returning for the Canadian production.

Shakespeare in love staging the oscar winning film


Production

The play was directed by Declan Donnellan, with design by Nick Ormerod and music by Paddy Cunneen. The original cast included David Oakes appearing as Marlowe, Tom Bateman as Will, and Lucy Briggs-Owen as the heroine Viola De Lesseps.

However, it was announced that the production would close on 18th April 2015.

Cast

Original London Company
Cast from 12 January 2015

References

Shakespeare in Love (play) Wikipedia