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Will

Country: USA, Language: English, 60 mins

  • Director: Shekhar Kapur et al.
  • Writer: Craig Pearce et al.
  • Producer: Andrew Wood; Sarah Byrd

CGiii Comment

Okay...so, we have watched the first episode...

We shall reserve judgment until the end...

Let's just say...it's more Mad Max than Elizabethan!


Trailer... 

 

The(ir) Blurb...

A drama about the lost years of young William Shakespeare after his arrival to London in 1589 -- when theatre was like rock and roll and a young man with a dream changed the world with his words.

Cast & Characters

Laurie Davidson as William Shakespeare;
Olivia DeJonge as Alice Burbage;
Mattias Inwood as Richard Burbage;
Ewen Bremner as Topcliffe;
Jamie Campbell Bower as Christopher Marlowe;
William Houston as Kemp;
Colm Meaney as James Burbage;
Jamie Beamish as Augustine Phillips;
Jonathan Jaynes as Astor Blunt;
James Berkery as Jeremy Nightstand;
Kenneth Collard as Justice Young;
Lukas Rolfe as Presto;
Max Bennett as Robert Southwell;
Abigail Hardingham as Moll;
Nicholas Farrell as Sir Francis Walsingham