Here are some wonderful photos by our photographer, Anna Wilton, which record our recent event at Knole.
- The evening light was beautiful as our audience arrived at Knole.
- Helen Hackett introduces the event, and explains that we want to highlight female participation in Renaissance drama, and challenge the narrative that suggests it was an exclusively male realm.
- After Yasmin’s wonderful talk on her work on the portrait of Anne Clifford as Cleopatra, Emma answered Helen’s questions about the process of staging Cleopatra.
- ‘This blood within thy veins came out of mine’: Cleopatra must part from her son, Caesario, played by Emily Stiff
- ‘This solitary horror where I bide’: Elspeth North, as Cleopatra, has sequestered herself in Antony’s tomb
- ‘Princes, like lions, never can be tamed’ – Caesar holds forth to Roman General, Proculeius, played by Mike Waters
- ‘Rise madam, rise, yourself was cause of all’: Cleopatra prostrates herself before Caesar, played by James Phillips
- ‘I know some things she hath reserved apart’: Treacherous Selecus, played by Anna Sowerbutts, betrays Cleopatra to Caesar
- ‘A poor revenge can work so feeble hands’: Caesar restrains Cleopatra as she tries to attack her treacherous servant, Seleceus
- Our lutenist, Sam Brown, laughs with cast members after the performance