Pedro The Great Pretender

Author: Miguel de Cervantes, in a new translation by Philip Osment

Director: Mike Alfreds

Royal Shakespeare Company : Spanish Golden Age Season

Synopsis

The play follows the fortunes of Pedro de Urdamales: an Odysseus of Spanish folktale, a dissembler and storyteller extraordinaire. Famed for his ingenuity and cunning, he is the epitome of the "picaro", a rogue who lives by his wits. Rather than a traditional, coherently-developing plot, the play presents a number of separate vignettes, the only continuity of which is the display of Pedro's resourceful wiliness.

Joseph Millson role

King and Beggar

Dates

9th - 30th Sept 2004 (Stratford)

17th Feb - 12th March 2005 (London)

30th - 31st Oct 2004 (Teatro Espagnol, Madrid, Spain)

18th - 26th November 2004 (The People's Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

Links

RSC

Playhouse Theatre

Dramatising the Spanish Golden Age Season (pdf)

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