TOM BURKE LEADS THE COMPANY OF DON CARLOS AS PART OF ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON’S
10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
An Exeter Northcott, Nuffield Southampton Theatres and Rose Theatre Kingston co-production
DON CARLOS
Written by Friedrich Schiller
Translated by Robert David MacDonald
Directed by Gadi Roll
Rose Theatre Kingston today announces a major new revival of Schiller’s Don Carlos with Tom Burke leading the company as Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa. Gadi Roll’s production is presented in a co-production with Exeter Northcott and Nuffield Southampton Theatres and forms part of the Rose’s 10th anniversary season alongside Much Ado About Nothing with Mel Giedroyc. Full details of the season will be announced shortly.
The production opens in Exeter, before touring to Southampton, and then completes its run at the Rose from 6-17 November 2018. Priority booking for the Rose Circle opens on 15 November, with Rose Loyalty Card Holders booking from 21 November, and public booking on 23 November 2017.
Don Carlos, son and heir to the tyrannical Philip II, is desperately in love with his stepmother, Elizabeth, to whom he was once betrothed. To resolve his all-consuming passion, Carlos enlists the help of his closest friend. Enter Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa, who dreams of freedom for his people and becomes an unlikely power broker in the King’s duplicitous court.
Written just two years before the French Revolution, Schiller’s Don Carlos engages with themes of justice, equality, freedom of expression and conscience, religious bigotry and state persecution and is as relevant today as ever.
Executive Producer Jerry Gunn said today, “We’re thrilled to welcome Tom Burke and Gadi Roll to Kingston with Schiller’s seminal work Don Carlos as part of our 10th anniversary season in a co-production with Exeter Northcott and Nuffield Southampton Theatres. 2018 is shaping up to be an extraordinary year for the company with Don Carlos joining Much Ado about Nothing with Mel Giedroyc as Beatrice. We look forward to sharing our full plans for the year shortly.”
Friedrich Schiller’s (1759 – 1805) principal works for the stage include The Robbers, Intrigue and Love, The Wallenstein Trilogy, Mary Stuart and William Tell.
Robert David MacDonald (1929-2004) was a playwright, translator and director. He was co-director of the Citizens’ Theatre Company, Glasgow and wrote fifteen plays for the company including Dracula, Camille, De Sade Show, Chinchilla, No Orchids For Miss Blandish, Summit Conference, A Waste Of Time, Don Juan, Webster, Anna Karenina, and Conundrum. As a translator he translated/adapted over seventy operas and plays from ten different languages, including such operas as, The Threepenny Opera (Glasgow/ENO North), Tamerlano, Flight From The Harem, The Barber Of Seville, Aida (WNOC), Marschner’s Vampire!, Cosi Fan Tutti (Hintlesham); and plays, Figaro, Orpheus, The Human Voice, Conversation At Night, Achterloo, Shadow Of Angels, The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens, The Government Inspector, Tasso, Faust I & II, Brand, Hedda Gabler, Maskerade, The House Of Bernada Alba, School For Wives, Don Juan, Enrico Four, Phedra, Mary Stuart, The Seagull, Around The World In Eighty Days, Lulu and Clavigo.
Tom Burke plays Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa. His theatre work includes The Deep Blue Sea, The Doctor’s Dilemma (National Theatre), Reasons to be Happy (Hampstead Theatre), Reasons to be Pretty, Macbeth(Almeida Theatre), Design for Living (The Old Vic), for the Donmar Warehouse, Creditors (also New York, winner of the Ian Charleson Award) and The Cut, and Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe). His television work includes Strike, The Musketeers, War and Peace, Utopia, The Hour and Great Expectations; and for film, The Libertine, The Enlightenment, The Collectors, Donkey Punch, Telstar, Chéri, An Enemy to Die For, Cleanskin, Only God Forgives, The Invisible Woman and The Hooligan Factory.
Gadi Roll has directed over sixty productions for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, Teatr Polski, Wroclaw, American Repertory Theatre Boston, Stari Teatr Krakow, Habima National Theatre, Cameri and Beit-Lessin Theatres Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Khan Theatre, Haifa Theatre and Beer-Sheva Theatre, Israel. Credits include Iphigenia at Aulis, The House of Bernarda Alba, Les Parents Terrible, Don Juan Comes Back From the War, Pains of Youth, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi, Measure for Measure, ‘Tis a Pity She’s a Whore, The Robbers, Don Carlos, Spring Awakening, Waiting For Godot, 1913, The Park, Quei Oust, A View from the Bridge, The Lady from the Sea, No End of Blame, Amadeus and Saved.
Exeter Northcott Theatre
11 – 20 October 2018
Press night: 16 October
Box Office: 01392 726363
Nuffield Southampton Theatres
23 October – 3 November
www.nstheatres.co.uk
Box Office: 023 8067 1771
Rose Theatre Kingston
6 – 17 November
Box Office: 020 8174 0090
15 November – priority booking for Rose Circle
21 November – Rose Loyalty card holders
23 November – general public