The Anne Boleyn Files

Events on this page will link to our Events Calendar. I am happy to list any events that are Anne Boleyn or Tudor related if you send me details and photos (if possible). Email me at claire@theanneboleynfiles.com.

Rex: The Musical

17th February – 6th March 2010
7:00 pm on Wednesdays, 8:00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, matinees on February 21, 28 and March 6 at 2:00 pm
Venue: Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall Drive, Toronto
Tickets are $25 – $27.50.

Tickets can be ordered by calling the BOX OFFICE at (416) 755-1717 or by visiting the website at www.CivicLightOperaCompany.com/

Information taken from MyTownCrier.ca:-

“THE CIVIC LIGHT-OPERA COMPANY, Toronto’s Premiere Musical Theatre, proudly presents THE CANADIAN PREMIERE of Richard Rodgers’ penultimate musical REX, which plays at the Fairview Library Theatre from Feb. 17-Mar. 6. This is thefirst-ever post-Broadway staging of the musical which amazed audiences on Broadway in the 1975-76 season.

In the style of CAMELOT and THE KING & I, the royalty, romance and intrigue of the court of King Henry VIII is brought vividly and melodically to life in this dramatically-fascinating, musically-stirring and visually-captivating Broadway musical.

REX – the musical features a full cast and orchestra, lavish sets and costumes.
It stars Joe Cascone as Henry VIII with Ashley Gibson in the dual roles of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, David Haines as Henry’s Fool, Carol Kugler as Catherine of Aragon, Andrea Barker as Jane Seymour, Damien Gulde as Mark Smeaton, and many other Civic Light-Opera Company favourites in a stunning production not to be missed!”

“Death Becomes Her: The Life and Afterlife of Lady Jane Grey” – A Talk by Leanda de Lisle

Friday 5th March, 6.30-7.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre, National Gallery, London
Tickets: £5 (£3 Concessions)

“Lady Jane Grey is mythologised as the helpless young victim of adult ambition. Her legend finds its apogee in Paul Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, with its erotic overtones of a virgin sacrifice. Historian Leanda de Lisle explores the fictions, the frauds and the life of England’s first reigning queen.”

Leanda de Lisle is an historian and is the author of the wonderful “The Sisters Who Would Be Queen”, about Lady Jane Grey and her sisters Katherine and Mary. The talk is sure to be enlightening.

Leanda will also be signing books.

More details and booking at http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/lecture-5-march-2010

Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey

Admission and Open Hours

Press view: 23 February 2010, 10.30am–1.30pm
Open to public: 24 February 2010 – 23 May 2010, Daily 10am–6pm, Friday until 9pm
Last admission 5.15pm (8.15pm Friday)

Admission
Enter by the Sainsbury Wing Entrance.
Full price £8
Senior/Concession/Disabled visitors £7
Carers FREE
Job seeker/Student/Art Fund £4
Family (2 adults and ≤4 children) £16
Under 12s FREE
Season Ticket £20
Senior/Disabled Season £18
Job seeker/Art Fund/ Student Season £10

For advance tickets to Painting History please visit www.nationalgallery.org.uk (booking fee).
You can also book tickets by post and in person from the Gallery.
For public information, please contact 020 7747 2885 or email information@ng-london.org.uk

While you’re at the National Gallery, you can also see the Room 1 exhibition “A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted” (admission free) and the gallery’s collection of over 2,300 works, including a host of fabulous Renaissance art.

David Starkey Lecture

Thursday 4 March
“The History We’ve Forgotten: Diplomacy and the Biography of Henry VIII”
Speaker: David Starkey
Chair: Susan Brigden
Venue: Mason Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London

See http://www.qmul.ac.uk/docs/Renaissance-Seminars.pdf for full information of this and other Renaissance seminars.

The Anne Boleyn Experience 2010

17th – 21st May 2010
Hever Castle, Kent, England.

This event is organised by the Anne Boleyn Files and is an Anne Boleyn focused tour. Highlights include:-

• Stay at Anne Boleyn’s family home, Hever Castle, walk in her footsteps and be surrounded by history and beauty. We have the exclusive use of the Astor Wing with its luxury rooms, Tudor dining room and conference facilities.
• Visit the Tower of London on “Anne Boleyn Day” to commemorate her execution on 19th May 1536.
• Enjoy tours of the Tower, Hever Castle and Hampton Court Palace with our own personal guide.
• Meet Tudor biographer Josephine Wilkinson and hear her talk about our heroine, Anne Boleyn.
• Learn more about Anne Boleyn and Tudor times with special talks from an historian and Tudor costumer.
• Meet other Anne Boleyn fans and take home some very special memories.
• Receive a special pack of signed Tudor history books and other goodies.

Unlike other tours which stay in hotels, we are actually staying at Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn’s home! You can find out more at http://tour.theanneboleynfiles.com/. The cost is all-inclusive (except flights/transport to London) of food, accommodation, entrance fees etc.

“Anne Boleyn” at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

by Howard Brenton
24 July – 21 August 2010

Booking opens 15 February

Priority booking for the Friends of Shakespeare’s Globe opens 4 January.

World Premiere

“A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII’s notorious second wife. Anne Boleyn is traditionally seen either as a pawn manipulated by an ambitious father and his friends into the King’s bed, or as a sexually licentious predator, even a witch.

But Brenton puts a very different Anne – and her ghost – on the Globe stage. Witty and confident in her sexuality, she takes on the vicious world of Tudor Court politics. She is in love with Henry but also in love with the most dangerous ideas of her day. Conspiring with the exiled William Tyndale, the great translator of the Bible who was to be burnt as a heretic, Anne plots to make England Protestant, forever.”

Award-winning playwright Howard Brenton’s previous work includes In Extremis at Shakespeare’s Globe (2006 and 2007).

Find out more at http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/theatre/annualtheatreseason/anneboleyn/

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