Digital Archive:Cast list, Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1970)

Listing cast and production team and show dates

WORLD PREMIERE

Presented by arrangement with HM Tennent Ltd

VIVAT! VIVAT REGINA!

by ROBERT BOLT

 

Characters in Order of Speaking

Catherine de Medici………………………………….. Mairhi Russell

Mary, Queen of Scots………………………………… Sarah Miles

Francois II……………………………………………….. Michael Feast

The Cardinal of Lorraine……………………………. William Hutt

Elizabeth I of England……………………………….. Eileen Atkins

William Cecil…………………………………………….. Richard Pearson

Robert Dudley…………………………………………… Norman Eshley

John Knox………………………………………………… Leonard Maguire

Bagpiper…………………………………………………… Willie Cochrane

Lord Morton……………………………………………… Archie Duncan

David Rizzio………………………………………………. Barry Jackson

Lord Bothwell…………………………………………….. David McKail

Claud Nau………………………………………………….. Charles Lloyd Pack

A Bishop…………………………………………………….. Brian Hawksley

A Cleric………………………………………………………. Robin Humphreys

Sir Francis Walsingham……………………………….. Edgar Wreford

de Quadra…………………………………………………… Edward Atienza

A Messenger……………………………………………….. Michael Feast

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley…………………………. James Warwick

Lord Mor……………………………………………………. Cyril Wheeler

A Doctor…………………………………………………….. Roger Rowland

Tala…………………………………………………………… Charles Houston

Ormiston……………………………………………………. Jonathan Mallard

Davison………………………………………………………. Philip Anthony

Earl of Shrewsbury………………………………………. Brian Hawksley

A Prisoner…………………………………………………… Charles Houston

Francis, Duke of Alençon………………………………. Milo Sperber

Ruthven………………………………………………………. Leon Greene

Lindsey………………………………………………………… Thick Wilson

Falconside…………………………………………………….. Raymond Skipp

Kerr……………………………………………………………… Antony Milner

Douglas………………………………………………………… Jonathan Mallard

An Archbishop………………………………………………. Kenneth McClellan

Philip, King of Spain………………………………………. Antony Milner

The Pope……………………………………………………….. Robert Selbie

A Priest…………………………………………………………. John Herrington

Jailers…………………………………………………………… David Gwillim   Raymond Skipp

Brewer………………………………………………………….. David Gwillim

Courtiers/Lairds/Clerks/Servants……………………. David Gwillim   John Herrington   Carolyn Lyster   Melinda May   John O’Brien    Mary Savage   Raymond Skipp   Cyil Wheeler

 

Director…………………………………………………………. Peter Dews

Designer………………………………………………………… Carl Toms

Music composed & arranged by……………………….. Richard Kayne

Choreography…………………………………………………. Virginia Mason

Lighting…………………………………………………………. Mick Hughes

Fights arranged by………………………………………….. Jack Barry

 

Stage Manager………………………………………………… Robert Nelson

Assistant Stage Managers…………………………………. Jenny Bos, Judy Crowther, Alan Kay

 

 

 

 

 

May:                  Tue 19S, Wed 20F, Thu 21e, Fri 22, Sat 23e, Mon 25, Wed 27, Thu 28e, Sat 30m

 

June:                  Tue 2, Thu 4m, Fri 5, Sat 6e, Mon 8, Wed 10, Thu 11e, Sat 13m, Tue 16, Thu 18m,

Fri 19, Sat 20e, Mon 22, Wed 24, Thu 25e, Sat 27m, Tue 30

 

July:                   Thu 2m, Fri 3, Sat 4e, Mon 13, Wed 15, Thu 16m, Fri 17, Sat 18L

 

 

S = Society Preview

F = First Night

m = matinee

e = evening

L = Last Night

 

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