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  2. Wallenstein

    Wallenstein
    by Freidrich Schiller,
    Adapted by Mike Poulton


    (Chichester Minerva)

    REVIEWS - May 2009

    The role of Wallenstein is a great one, endowed by Iain Glen with the perfect mix of arrogance, idealism, vanity and vulnerability. One only wishes Glen spent more time on the classical stage. Angus Jackson's hurtling production has first-rate support from Anthony Calf as the devious Octavio, John McEnery as a spidery war minister, Tom Brooke as a calculating Swedish colonel and Charlotte Emmerson as the hero's ruinously intemperate sister-in-law. If you relish historical-political drama on the grand scale, get down to Chichester.

    The Guardian, Michael Billingtom

    Schiller's verse drama of a fallen idol, rarely seen here, deserves to be much better known, especially in such a thrilling production as this one by Angus Jackson... Completed in 1799, the trilogy can run to ten hours, and has here been compressed, by Mike Poulton, to less than three...it does not feel rushed - rather, jet-propelled. A superb cast, whose verse-reading is supple and muscular, drive this tale of a military commander who defies God, emperor, and nation until all that awaits him is a knife or a noose.

    The Independent, Rhoda Koening

    Mike Poulton is becoming Britain's Friedrich Schiller... Here's a piece that makes Shakespeare's history plays seem morally unsubtle. What's the meaning of duty, loyalty, oaths? With the protestant Wallenstein obsessively poring over astrological charts, what's the place of chance, fate, faith, religion in human affairs? Anyone who thinks complexity is a dramatic plus will relish this brisk, bold revival. Glen catches the contradictions of the soldier who sees himself as a new Julius Caesar: chivalric yet arrogant, charismatic yet naïve.

    The Times, Benedict Nightingale

    Chichester Festival Theatre has come up with a handsome production of this fine play.

    Daily Mail, Quentin Letts



  3. Credits

    Prince Albert von Wallenstein
    Iain Glen

    Elizabeth von Wallenstein
    Jessica Turner

    Count Octavio Piccolomini
    Anthony Calf

    Count Terzky
    Paul Hickey

    Countess Terzky
    Charlotte Emmerson

    Max Piccolomini
    Max Irons

    Princess Thelka
    Annabel Scholey

    A friar / Gotz
    Fergus O’Donnell

    Buttler
    Denis Conway

    Gustav Wrangle
    Tom Brooke

    Isolani / The Mayor of Eger
    Ferdy Roberts

    Illo
    Sebastian Armesto

    von Questenberg / Gordon
    John McEnery

    Kinsky / Page
    James Atherton

    A butler / soldier
    Andrew Westfield

    Director
    Angus Jackson

    Design
    Robert Innes Hopkins

    Lighting
    James Whiteside

    Sound
    Jonathan Suffolk

    Fight Direction
    Terry King

    Photographer
    Catherine Ashmore



    One only wishes Glen spent more time on the classical stage.

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