48th PRODUCTIONShakespeare’s ‘KING JOHN’ Freely Adapted & Directed by GAVIN BANTOCK (who has now directed all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays!) was performed on 2nd December, 2016, 2016 being the 800th anniversary year of King John’s death, and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death Kazuya Yoshizaki as Stephen Langton Kazuki Urata (Torikian) as and Yuki Ohtakias Simon de Montfort King John (with Anton Bantock’s MBE medal) Yukiya Arai as Hubert & Hina Kawamura as Prince Arthur Co-Director Merwyn Torikian with his son Kazuki as King John, and uncle Director Gavin Bantock (3 Generations of English Drama!) Shakespeare's most rarely performed history play, freely adapted and augmented to focus on the birth of democracy in England. A vivid of account of how the barons, the Church and the common people of England reduced the power of their tyrannical King, who had no right to wear the crown. The signing of the famous charter, the Magna Carta, the holding of the first English parliament, and the landmark Peasants' Revolt – a dramatic blend of political intrigue, murderous plots, plunder of churches, sudden deaths and a popular revolution. A panoply of great personalities – the King's powerful mother Queen Eleanor, the noble Archbishop Stephen Langton, the bold and forthright knight Simon de Montfort, the fiery rebel Wat Tyler and many others.

48th PRODUCTIONShakespeare’s ‘KING JOHN’

Freely Adapted & Directed by

GAVIN BANTOCK

(who has now directed all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays!)

was performed on 2nd December, 2016,

2016 being the 800th anniversary year

of King John’s death, and

the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death

Kazuya Yoshizaki as Stephen Langton Kazuki Urata (Torikian) as

and Yuki Ohtakias Simon de Montfort King John

(with Anton Bantock’s MBE medal)

Yukiya Arai as Hubert

& Hina Kawamura as Prince Arthur

Co-Director Merwyn Torikian

with his son Kazuki as King John,

and uncle Director Gavin Bantock (3 Generations of English Drama!)

Shakespeare's most rarely performed history play, freely adapted and augmented to focus on the birth of democracy in England.

A vivid of account of how the barons, the Church and the common people of England reduced the power of their tyrannical King, who had no right to wear the crown.

The signing of the famous charter, the Magna Carta, the holding of the first English parliament, and the landmark Peasants' Revolt – a dramatic blend of political intrigue, murderous plots, plunder of churches, sudden deaths and a popular revolution.

A panoply of great personalities – the King's powerful mother Queen Eleanor, the noble Archbishop Stephen Langton, the bold and forthright knight Simon de Montfort, the fiery rebel Wat Tyler and many others.