A scorching new reworking of Shakespeare's
classic text for Golden Jubilee year

The mind and body of a hot-blooded young King are the prize in a vicious three-way power struggle between his queen Katherine, his mistress Anne, and the ruthlesssly ambitious Cardinal Wolsey - one of Shakespeare's most gloriously despicable villains.

At stake are marriages, empires, careers - and necks!

Shakespeare's rarely performed dramatisation of the political and sexual intrigue surrounding the first two wives of England's most volatile monarch has been dragged out of the mothballs of period costume, and cut into a new, fast moving, sexually charged thriller set in our contemporary world of SEX, SLEAZE, PALACE SCANDAL and POLITICAL SPIN.

HENRY VIII Follows the 2001 sell-out Titus Andronicus
'A stunning production' INDEPENDENT
'Brilliantly staged' METRO
'Willmott's touch of genius' TIME OUT
'A tremendous production' GUARDIAN
Commended EVENING STANDARD THEATRE AWARDS
Critics' Choice TIMES, GUARDIAN, TIME OUT, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Made possible by a TIF/SOLT New Producers' Bursary financed by the Society of London Theatre, supported by the Arts Council of England, the Mackintosh Foundation, Clear Channel Entertainment Ltd and the Equity Trust Fund