Blue Beard Babes
Henry VIII's Six Wives Meet Today
Season 2011
The divorced, beheaded, dead, surviving wives invite you to a backstage tour through what really happened with hot & heavy Harry.
Anne dates Kate's hubby Harry, who wants a boy with Jane, considers marrying another Anne but then goes for another Kate instead, leaving a third Kate to look after the kids. - Heads and hearts are at stake when Harry's Six finally meet in today's world for some girls talk on love and lust, marriage and miscarriage, politics and private lives. Five centuries on, it's high time for the Blue Beard Babes to tell their own story.
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Catherine of Aragon: Alice Frick
- Anne Boleyn: Maria Alexe
- Jane Seymour: Jiin Jang
- Anne of Cleves: Lauren Karl
- Catherine Howard: Romina Boldasu
- Catherine Parr: Cindy-Jane Armbruster
Creative Team
- Direction: Eva Mann
- Movement Director: Laura Milani
Critical Reception
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Mathilda Gregory β Fringe Guru
a subtle and moving piece about female friendships and rivalries
startlingly beautiful
a little dramatic jewel
Oana IuraΕcu β Gazeta Romaneasca
The show which is rich in physicality, alternating with silent moments of intense drama.
Six actors, twelve stories, fourteen characters, thirty-five decks of playing cards and thirty-eight years of British history in one hour? Hard to pull off, maybe, but the high-energy women of the Playades Theatre Company took it in their stride at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Mary Price
The actors, the props and the script are wonderful
