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EDWARD II

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

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James Laurenson

First Poor Man

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Christopher Whitehouse

Second Poor Man

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Michael Howarth

Third Poor Man

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Andrew Crawford

King Edward the Second

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Ian McKellen

Edmund Earl of Kent, his brother

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Peter Bourne

Thomas Earl of Lancaster

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Trevor Martin

Roger Mortimer of Chirk

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Michael Spice

Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, his nephew

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Timothy West

Guy Earl of Warwick

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Paul Hardwick

The Bishop of Coventry, later of Winchester

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Michael Godfrey

The Archbishop of Canterbury

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Robert Eddison

Queen Isabella, sister to the King of France

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Diane Fletcher

The Earl of Pembroke

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Stephen Greif

Robert Baldock, later Lord Chancellor

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David Strong

Young Spencer, later Earl of Gloucester

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David Caldor

Lady Margaret de Clare, the King's niece

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Lucy Fleming

Sir Thomas Berkeley, the Earl of Arundel

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Colin Fisher

Old Spencer

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Andrew Crawford

Prince Edward, son of King Edward II

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Myles Reighermann

Levune

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Richard Morant

Sir John of Hainault

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Michael Spice

Rice ap Howell

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Trevor Martin

The Abbot of North Abbey

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Stephen Greif

A Mower

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Jeremy Nicholas

The Earl of Leicester

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Richard Morant

Sir John Maltravers

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Paul Hardwick

Thomas Gurney

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Terence Wilton

Lightborn

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Robert Eddison

Soldiers, Messengers, etc.

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Nigel Crewe, Nicol Gordon, Nigel Havers, Michael Howarth, Jeremy Nicholas, Nicolas Olivier, William Smith, Christopher Whitehouse