Divorce, behead, die — but make it LIVE and sweaty.
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
Acting
Ian McNeice's Wolsey — sweaty, magnificent, doomed.
Production
The Globe's wooden O makes history feel dangerously alive.
Direction
Rosenblatt balances spectacle with intimate political chess.
Director
Mark Rosenblatt
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