Elizabeth Rex

By Timothy Findley

In the small hours of the night before Ash Wednesday, 1601, William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men receive an unexpected visitor to their humble lodgings. Unable to rest, the Queen herself has come to keep vigil on the eve of the execution of her former lover, the Earl of Essex. Her arrival provokes the rapier-sharp wit and keen insight of Ned Lowenscroft, the company’s brilliant performer of women’s roles, and sparks the imagination of the Bard of Avon. In the course of the long night and their often turbulent exchanges, the actor, the queen, and the playwright will confront the roles they have played and the lives they have lived, wrestling with questions of identity, sexuality, and love, and asking: what makes a man a man, and a women a women?
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Cast & Crew

Barbara Worthy*	Elizabeth Rex
Clinton Walker*	Ned
Tom Harris	Will
Rick Zimmerman*	Jack
Sean Sullivan*	Cecil
Dini Verburgh	Tardy
Peter R. Snell*	Percy
David Condren	Harry
Jean Parker	Stanley
Joan Taylor	Henslowe
Julian Nicholson	Luddy
Jake Chalmers*	Matt
Lucas Porter	Tom
Andrew Stoddart	Ben
Jen Sargent	Bear
Cee Holter	Courtier
Ashley Howard	Courtier
Jim McPherson	Guard
Don Roberts	Guard
Paul Thompson	Director
Anne Anglin	Assistant Director
Krista Hansen-Robitschek*	Stage Manager
Andrew Binks	Assistant Stage Manager
Joan Churchill	Assistant Stage Manager
Gillian Gallow	Costume & Set Designer
Amira Routledge	Assistant Costume Designer
Phil Dowling	Lighting Designer
Much Ado Troop
Jake Chalmers*	Claudio
David Condren	Hero
Cee Holter	Lady of the Court
Julian Nicholson	Friar Francis
Lucas Porter	Margaret
Don Roberts	Singer
Peter R. Snell*	The Watch
Andrew Stoddart	Boy
Clinton Walker*	Beatrice
Rick Zimmerman*	Benedick

*appearing with the permission of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association