It’s 1981.  The world watches the Duchess, young, iconic and recently widowed.  The Press see her as public property; her brother thinks her life belongs to him.  Secretly marrying a second time, she hides a life of her own behind closed doors.  But her twin’s jealousy will prove her undoing.

This spare, tender adaptation of Webster’s classic tragedy, by exciting new playwright BRYONY MARKWICK, explores the gap between the twentieth century’s apparent civilisation and the old cruelties buried beneath the surface.

Directed by Imogen Russell Williams
Set and Lighting design by Catherine DiGirolamo
Cast: Katharine Gwen Pons, Damian Christian-Howard, Alan Mirren, Tim Macavoy, Debbie Waldon, Rosalind Parker, David Spence

HAVE YOUR CAKE THEATRE are a new company who intend to produce new versions of classical and Renaissance texts, hoping to shed fresh light on underperformed originals and demonstrate that the big themes have never gone away.

DAMIAN CHRISTIAN-HOWARD has won two Best Actor awards for his leading role in the short film Save the World. He is currently appearing as Benedick in the Bridewell Theatre's lunchtime show, Much Ado About Nothing.

KATHARINE GWEN PONS recently played the eponymous lead in Anouilh's Antigone at Vienna's English Theatre. 

Director IMOGEN RUSSELL WILLIAMS finished a Master's degree in Text and Performance at RADA last year and has been directing since she was at school.  The Oxford DAILY INFO described her ‘Tis Pity She's a Whore as ‘a most satisfying and entertaining production of a sometimes troubling play'.