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Today
by
Robert Holman
Performed
at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
Opened on 23rd October 1984
Transferred to the The Pit, London
Opened on 10th May 1985
The
Royal Shakespeare Company |
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Pictures
from Today
(please click on each picture for
a larger version)
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| Katharine
Rogers as Sister Mary Joseph and Roger Allam
as Victor Ellison |
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Roger
Allam as Victor Ellison, Simon Templeman as
Heinz Bayer
and Jim Hooper as Peter Dean |
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Penny
Downie as Peggy Smith
and Roger Allam as Victor Ellison |
Rowena
Roberts as Dorothy Ellison
and Roger Allam as Victor Ellison |
Katharine
Rogers as Sister Mary Joseph and Roger Allam
as Victor Ellison |
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Roger Allam
as Victor Ellison, Jim Hooper as Peter
Dean,
Simon Templeman as Heinz Bayer and David
Whitaker as Ernest Hurll
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| CAST: |
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| Peggy Smith |
Penny
Downie |
| Victor Ellison |
Roger
Allam |
| Richard
Hurll |
David
Whitaker |
| Thomas Ellison |
George
Raistrick |
| Lucy Ellison |
Amanda
Root |
| Wilfred
Fox |
Jimmy
Yuill |
| Dorothy
Ellison |
Rowena
Roberts |
| Constable
Price |
Donald
McKillop |
| Rebecca
Ellison |
Kelly
Gregory/Charlotte Williams |
| Edward Longresse |
James
Simmons |
| Elizabeth
Bradley |
Polly
James |
| Ernest Hurll |
David
Whitaker |
| Heinz Bayer |
Simon
Templeman |
| Peter Dean |
Jim
Hooper |
| Sister Mary
Joseph |
Katharine
Rogers |
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| TECHNICAL
TEAM: |
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| Directed
by |
Bill
Alexander |
| Set
Designed by |
William
Dudley |
| Costumes
Designed by |
Allan
Watkins |
| Lighting |
Wayne
Dowdeswell |
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The
Story |
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| Shifting
between Yorkshire in 1946, Cambridge in the
early Thirties and Spain in 1937. Today
focuses on a romantic friendship between two
opposites: Victor, an earnest working class
musician with a joiner-father, and Edward,
an upper class Etonian writer with a millionaire
aunt. Both end up in Spain fighting Fascism.
But whereas Victor, who sees art in terms
of revenge and whose socialism is implacably
self-centered, survived the war, his privileged
visionary chum doesn't. An to underline the
point about loss of faith, Victor marries
a nursing nun who readily abandons her calling. |
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