Shakespeare in Love @BCAT

Shakespeare in Love

Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard

Directed by Pauline Armour, Simon Clark, David Evans, and Mair Lloyd Roberts

An amateur production by Bromley Community Arts Theatre (BCAT) by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd

Promising young playwright Will Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block until he finds his muse in the form of passionate noblewoman, Viola de Lesseps. Their forbidden love draws many others, including Queen Elizabeth, into the drama and inspires Will to write ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the greatest love story of all time. Based on Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard’s  Oscar winning screenplay and adapted by the award winning playwright Lee Hall (The Pitmen Painters , Billy Elliot). 

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