Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir/Saint Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.In 2012, The Observer named it as one of “The 10 best historical novels”.
The plays sold out at Stratford-upon-Avon and quickly transferred to London, where they received critical raves, broke box office records and triumphed as the West End’s biggest hit plays. WOLF HALL Parts One & Two is coming to Broadway for a strictly limited engagement! Performed in repertory, Hilary Mantel’s exhilarating stories of power and persuasion in Tudor England will transport audiences to the volatile court of King Henry VIII, where words cut like steel and the shadow of the Tower loomed over all. You cannot afford to miss the most thrilling theatrical event of the season, WOLF HALL Parts One & Two.
Wintergarden Theatre
First Preview 20, March 2015
Opening Night 09, April 2015
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Cast
Lydia Leonard – Anne Boleyn
Ben Miles – Thomas Cromwell
Nathaniel Parker – King Henry VIII
Joey Batey – Mark Smeaton
Nicholas Boulton – Duke of Suffolk
Lucy Briers – Katherine of Aragon/ Lady Rochford
Leah Brotherhead – Jane Seymour/ Princess Mary/ Lady Worcestor
Olivia Darnley – Mary Boleyn/ Lizzie Wykys/ Mary Shelton
Nicholas Day – Duke of Norfolk
Mathew Foster – Ensemble
Daniel Fraser – Gregory Cromwell
Edward Harrison – George Boleyn/ Edward Seymour
Benedict Hastings – Barge-Master/ Wolsey’s Servant
Madeleine Hyland – Lady in Waiting/ Maid/ Margery Seymour
Paul Jesson – Cardinal Wolsey/ Archbishop Warham/ Sir John Seymour/ Sir William Kingston
Robert MacPherson – Ensemble
Pierro Niel-Mee Christophe/ Francis Weston
Matthew Pidgeon – Stephen Gardiner/ Eustache Chapuys
John Ramm – Thomas More/ Henry Norris
Nicholas Shaw – Harry Percy/ William Brereton
Joshua Silver – Rafe Sadler
Giles Taylor – Thomas Cranmer/ Sir Thomas Boleyn/ French Ambassador
Jay Taylor – Thomas Wyatt/ Headsman
Hilary Mantel
is the author of eleven novels, two short story collections and a memoir, Giving Up The Ghost. She writes both historical and contemporary fiction, and her settings range from a South African township under apartheid to Paris in the Revolution, from a city in twentieth century Saudi Arabia to rural Ireland in the eighteenth century. Her novel Wolf Hall is about Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII. It won the 2009 Man Booker prize, the inaugural Walter Scott prize, and in the US won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bring Up The Bodies won the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. Taken togther Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies have sold over three million copies and have been translated into thirty-six languages. She is working on The Mirror & The Light, the third book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. In 2014 she was created a Dame.
Creative
Based on the novels by Dame Hilary Mantel
Adapted by Mike Poulton
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Directed by Jeremy Herrin
Scenic Design by Christopher Oram
Costume Design by Christopher Oram
Lighting Design by Paule Constable
Sound Design by Nick Powell
Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates
Produced by Jerry Frankel, Jeffrey Richards, Matthew Byam Shaw, Nia Janis & Nick Salmon and The Shubert Organization (Philip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President)
Originally produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company (Gregory Doran, Artistic Director; Catherine Mallyon, Executive Director)
