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Edward II
Make-up and costume parade (n.b. the long wig and beard lace before being
trimmed back for performance.)
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Programme, Alexandra Theatre Birmingham |
Gaveston (James Laurenson) greets Edward (Ian McKellen)
"Embrace me, Gaveston, as I do thee", I.1.140
Photo by: John Gilbert
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Ian McKellen and James Laurenson rehearse their kiss
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Edward II (Ian McKellen), Gaveston (James Laurenson), and Queen Isabella
(Diane Fletcher)
"Away then, touch me not; come, Gaveston.", I.4.159
Ian McKellen rehearsing as Edward II onstage at Assembly Hall, Edinburgh
with Timothy West (Young Mortimer). (Note the flowered shirt and generous
1960s tie-knot)
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King Edward, Queen Isabella, and the mutinous Barons
Photo by: John Gilbert
Ian McKellen (centre) as Marlowe's Edward II
"Thus after many years of wrathful war
Triumpheth England's Edward with his friends." IV.3.1
(Richard Morant, Colin Fisher, Luke Hardy, Ian McKellen, David
Calder, Andrew Crawford)
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"Here, take my crown, the life of Edward too", V.1.57
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"Sweet Spencer, gentle Baldock, part we must", IV.6.94
Spencer (David Calder) and Baldock (David Strong) with Edward II (Ian
McKellen) in Heath Abbey
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"Villain, I know thou com'st to murder me", V.5.41-44
Lightborn (Robert Eddison) and Edward (Ian McKellen)
Photo by: John Gilbert
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Lightborn (Robert Eddison) and Edward II (Ian McKellen)
"I feel a hell of grief. Where is my crown?" , V.5.89
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