Anne Boleyn

Lover. Heretic. Revolutionary. Queen.

A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history.

Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred into the King's bed, or as a predator manipulating her way to power, Anne is seen in a very different light in Howard Brenton's epic play.

Rummaging through the dead Queen Elizabeth's possessions upon coming to the throne in 1603, King James I finds alarming evidence that Anne was a religious conspirator, in love with Henry VIII but also with the most dangerous ideas of her day. She comes alive for him, a brilliant, confident but reckless young woman, whose marriage and death transformed England for ever.

An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books