Director John Dove follows up last season’s award winning production of Anne Boleyn with this lavish interpretation of Shakespeare’s sumptuous comedy.
Helena loves the arrogant Bertram, and when she cures the King of France of his sickness, she claims Bertram as her reward. But her brand-new husband, flying from Helena to join the wars, attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage – conditions he is sure will never be met.
Olivier-award winning actress Janie Dee, best known for Comic Potential in the West End and on Broadway, plays the Countess of Roussillon. The cast also includes some familiar faces to the Globe with Ellie Piercy, Liberty, The Merry Wives of Windsor 2008; Sam Crane, who won great acclaim as Hotspur in Henry IV last season; and James Garnon (King James I in Anne Boleyn) playing the scoundrel Parolles.
