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A Mad Couple Well Matched

Performance 1639 Cockpit Beeston's Boys

Comments

Best guess of performance based on William Beeston's lists of owned by the King and Queen's Young company of 10 August 1639 (see Steggle, p. 122, and the Critical Introduction to the play).
Performance 06 October 2006 Shakespeare Institute Eleanor Lowe Renaissance Research Group

Cast List

Careless - Martin Wiggins
Lord Oliver Thrivewell - John Jowett
Alicia Saleware - Heloise Senechal
Thomas Saleware - Christian van Nieuwerburgh
Anne Crostill - Kelly Steele
Wat - Sarah Thompson
Lord Lovely - Elly Lowe
etc.

Comments

A very jolly, interesting play-reading of an early draft of the modernised text; lots of laughter!
Contact: brome@sheffield.ac.uk Richard Brome Online, ISBN 978-0-9557876-1-4.   © Copyright Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010