The RSC’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies

Following sell-out audiences in Stratford, the RSC’s new versions of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies transfers to the West End’s Aldwych Theatre.

Running from 1 May to 6 September 2014, the new dramatisation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies will play in two parts in the West End.

Directed by Jeremy Herrin (This House – National Theatre, Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare’s Globe), the dramas are adapted for the stage in two parts by Mike Poulton.

The cast includes Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell, Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn, Lucy Briers as Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, Oscar Pearce as George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Nathaniel Parker as Henry VIII, Madeleine Hyland as Lady in Waiting, and Leah Brotherhead as Jane Seymour.

What’s Wolf Hall About?

Wolf Hall is set in England in 1527. Henry VIII has been King for almost 20 years and is desperate for a male heir. Intent on divorce he demands that Cardinal Wolsey persuade the Pope to grant him an annulment. With every month that passes without progress the King’s anger grows. Into this volatile court enters the commoner Thomas Cromwell – a one-time mercenary, master-politician, lawyer and doting father, who sets out to grant the King his desire whilst methodically and ruthlessly pursuing his own reforming agenda.

What’s Bring Up the Bodies About?

In Bring Up The Bodies, Anne Boleyn is now Queen, her path to Henry’s side cleared by Cromwell. But Henry remains without a male heir, and the conflict with the Catholic Church has left England dangerously isolated as France and the Holy Roman Empire ominously manoeuvre for position. When the King begins to fall in love with the seemingly plain Jane Seymour, Cromwell must negotiate an increasingly dangerous court as he charms, bullies and manipulates nobility, commoners and foreign powers alike to satisfy Henry, keep the nation safe, and advance his own ambitions.

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Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies extend at Aldwych Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have extended their run at the Aldwych Theatre. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240"] Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies[/caption] The stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s acclaimed novels by Mike Poulton have proved an enormous success in the West End, with the shows now extended at the Aldwych Theatre until 4 October 2014. The two plays tell the compelling story of Thomas Cromwell’s rise from blacksmith’s boy to Henry VIII’s chief fixer and deliverer of the King’s chosen bedfellows. The cast includes Ben Miles as Cromwell, Nathaniel Parker as Henry VIII, Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn, Paul Jesson as Cardinal Wolsey and Lucy Briers as Katherine of Aragon. Wolf Hall won the Man Booker in 2009 and Bring Up the Bodies won in 2012, making Hilary Mantel the first woman ever to have received the award twice, and the first person to win the prize for two consecutive novels of the same series. BOOK Book tickets to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies at the Aldwych Theatre

WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES: Tickets go on sale for London production

Tickets have gone on sale for the RSC's acclaimed productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. The two plays will run at the Aldwych Theatre in London from 1 May to 6 September 2014. Based on Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, which play in two separate parts, have been a huge commercial and critical success for the RSC in Stratford, and now transfer to London for a strictly limited season. Directed by Jeremy Herrin (This House), the dramas have been adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton. The cast includes Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell, Lydia Leonard as Anne Boleyn, Lucy Briers as Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford, Oscar Pearce as George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Nathaniel Parker as Henry VIII, Madeleine Hyland as Lady in Waiting, and Leah Brotherhead as Jane Seymour. BOOK Book tickets to Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies at the Playhouse Theatre

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