Written by Christopher Marlowe
Directed by Toby Robertson
Ian McKellen in the role of Edward II
Edinburgh Festival, UK and European tours, Mermaid Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre.
28 August 1969 - 21 March 1970
CAST
Piers Gaveston | James Laurenson | |
First Poor Man | Christopher Whitehouse | |
Second Poor Man | Michael Howarth | |
Third Poor Man | Andrew Crawford | |
King Edward the Second | Ian McKellen | |
Edmund Earl of Kent, his brother | Peter Bourne | |
Thomas Earl of Lancaster | Trevor Martin | |
Roger Mortimer of Chirk | Michael Spice | |
Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, his nephew | Timothy West | |
Guy Earl of Warwick | Paul Hardwick | |
The Bishop of Coventry, later of Winchester | Michael Godfrey | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury | Robert Eddison | |
Queen Isabella, sister to the King of France | Diane Fletcher | |
The Earl of Pembroke | Stephen Greif | |
Robert Baldock, later Lord Chancellor | David Strong | |
Young Spencer, later Earl of Gloucester | David Caldor | |
Lady Margaret de Clare, the King's niece | Lucy Fleming | |
Sir Thomas Berkeley, the Earl of Arundel | Colin Fisher | |
Old Spencer | Andrew Crawford | |
Prince Edward, son of King Edward II | Myles Reighermann | |
Levune | Richard Morant | |
Sir John of Hainault | Michael Spice | |
Rice ap Howell | Trevor Martin | |
The Abbot of North Abbey | Stephen Greif | |
A Mower | Jeremy Nicholas | |
The Earl of Leicester | Richard Morant | |
Sir John Maltravers | Paul Hardwick | |
Thomas Gurney | Terence Wilton | |
Lightborn | Robert Eddison | |
Soldiers, Messengers, etc. | Nigel Crewe, Nicol Gordon, Nigel Havers, Michael Howarth, Jeremy Nicholas, Nicolas Olivier, William Smith, Christopher Whitehouse |