Don Carlos (NHB Classic Plays) - Softcover

Frederic Schiller; Mike Poulton

3.5

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9781854598578: Don Carlos (NHB Classic Plays)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854598570 ISBN 13: 9781854598578

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2005

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Derek Jacobi starred in this new version of a German classic that played to great acclaim in London and New York. Don Carlos is passionately in love with Elizabeth, the French Princess to whom he was once betrothed. Carlos' tyrannical father, King Philip II of Spain, decides to marry Elizabeth himself. The young prince's hatred for his cold and distant parent knows no bounds. He enlists his oldest friend, Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa to act as go-between. But Posa decides to convert Carlos and Elizabeth's youthful passion into a full scale rebellion against King Philip's oppressive and bloody regime.

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Review:

Magnificent... leaves no doubt you are watching a classic... In Mike Poulton's fleet and vivid new translation... the story of the tyrannical King Philip II of Spain and his abused, love-tormented son, Don Carlos, has all the deftly plotted twists and turns of a thriller. You lean forward in your seat, desperate to discover what happens next... an absolutely spellbinding production of a masterpiece. --Telegraph

Grandage directs an exciting version that would do honour to any of our big national stages...a triumph. --Guardian

Marvellous...In short, this is a triumph. --Independent

Synopsis:

Derek Jacobi stars in the West End transfer of this new translation of a German classic - a smash hit at the Sheffield Crucible in 2004. Don Carlos is passionately in love with Elizabeth, the French Princess to whom he was once betrothed. Carlos' tyrannical father, King Philip II of Spain, decides to marry Elizabeth himself. The young prince's hatred for his cold and distant parent knows no bounds. He enlists his oldest friend, Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa to act as go-between. But Posa decides to convert Carlos and Elizabeth's youthful passion into a full scale rebellion against King Philip's oppressive and bloody regime.

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