RSC Winter 2013 Season Guide

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It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open,

England in 1527. Henry VIII has been is desperate for a male heir. Intent Cardinal Wolsey persuade the Pope to With every month that passes without

King for almost 20 years and on divorce he demands that grant him an annulment. 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, he sets out to grant the King his desire whilst methodically and ruthlessly pursuing his own reforming agenda. Director Jeremy Herrin


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