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In Extremis
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By Howard Brenton
- Director: John Dove
- Designer: Michael Taylor
- Composer: William Lyons
A new spirit of philosophical and religious enquiry is growing in 12th-century France. In its vanguard is the brilliant Peter Abelard. When he starts an affair with his student Heloise, his conservative enemies find just the pretext they need to discredit him. In so doing they start a war of ideas that can only involve that arch-priest of medieval mysticism and austerity, Bernard of Clairvaux.
- Howard Brenton writes in the Guardian about creating new work at the Globe Theatre.
- An article by Constant J. Mews about Heloise and Abelard
Cast
- William of Chapeaux: John Bett
- Abelard: Oliver Boot
- Heloise: Sally Bretton
- Helene: Eleanor Bron
- Denise: Pascale Burgess
- Fulbert: Paul Copley
- Company: Tas Emiabata
- Alberic: Michael Gould
- Louis VI: Colin Hurley
- Bernard of Clairvaux: Jack Laskey
- Lotholf: William Mannering
- Berthode: Niamh McCann
- Cousin: Simon Muller
- Francine: Rhiannon Oliver
- Cousin: Andrew Vincent