The Two Gentlemen of Verona
25 July 2021
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directed by Anna Quercia-Thomas
After being rudely thwarted in late June by consecutive weekend downpours, the rescheduled moved reading of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona took place on 25 July 2021.
One of Shakespeare's first plays and a comedy about romance, bromance, and societal breakdown.
“My aim with this reading is to depict Two Gentlemen not as Shakespeare’s failed first attempt at tropes perfected later in his better-known plays, as it is so often dismissed, but as an intentional breakdown of society and of strictly regulated male/male interaction, resulting from the tension between heterosexual marriage and homosocial bonds.”
Jordan Holloway – Proteus
Keiran Trembath – Valentine
Hannah Anderson – Julia, Outlaw
Steph Ferguson – Sylvia
Maggie MacEvilly – Lance, Eglamour, Outlaw
Courtney Maldo – Speed, Host
Nina Stewart – Lucetta, Outlaw
Cheyenne Ashton – Thurio, Pantino
Grant Malcolm - Duke and Antonio
Photography by Nigel Goodwin and Grant Malcolm
