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Power
a new play by Nick Dear
I learn my lessons from the lips of the dying: at anymoment they may come for us, knife scintillant in the starlight, assassin sick with fear. So act first. Identify the danger, disarm it, and destroy.
Behind the seductive facade at the court of Louis XIV, there is corruption, debauchery and betrayal. It's 1661. Cardinal Mazarin is dead; the coffers are empty; Fouquet can help.
Robert Lindsay makes his NT debut. Nick Dear recently adapted Gorky’s Summerfolk for the National.
Some say power's an illusion
World premiere
Cast credits:
Jean-Baptiste Colbert : Stephen Boxer
Anne of Austria : Barbara Jefford
Nicolas Fouquet : Robert Lindsay
Louise de la Valliere : Hattie Morahan
Louis XIV : Rupert Penry-Jones
Philippe, duc d'Orléans : Jonathan Slinger
Henriette d'Angleterre : Geraldine Somerville
Production credits:
Director: Lindsay Posner
Designer: Christopher Oram
Music: Michael Nyman
Lighting Design: Wolfgang Goebbel
photo by Hugo Glendinning
Power finished on: 29 October 2003
