Edward II

by Bertolt Brecht

presented at
BoHo Theatre @ Heartland Studio
February 24 — April 1, 2007

Adapted and Directed by
Elizabeth Tanner

Produced by Adam Miller

Cast: Kevin Bishop, Joe Ciresi, Courtney Crouse, Esteban Cruz, James Dolson, Jonathan Goodman, Traci Hartely, Josh Horne, Sean Parker, J.R. Rodriguez, and Sean Walton as Edward II.

Edward II is an intense and swiftly moving account of a king controlled by his basest passions, a weak man who became a puppet of his homosexual lover, and paid a tragic price for forsaking the governance of his country. The action tales place in early fourteenth-century England, during a period when England was surrounded by enemies in Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, and France.

Edward, preoccupied by the banishment of his lover, Gaveston, barely acknowledged the nascent crises that threaten his realm; he indulged his passions and abdicated his duties, failing to recognize that his willful and persistent refusal to attend to state affairs was eroding his royal authority.