This is a production of the play The Swan Down Gloves (by Bille Brown and Nigel Hess) by Royal Shakespeare Company, 3rd March 1982 (press night), at Barbican Theatre, London.

Composer Nigel Hess talks about creating the music for the RSC's Love's Labour's Won (better known as Much Ado About Nothing).

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs over 1,000 staff and produces around 20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in London, Newcastle upon Tyne, and on tour across the UK and internationally. The company's home is in Stratford-upon-Avon, where it has recently redeveloped its Royal Shakespeare and Swan theatres as part of a £112. 8-million "Transformation" project.

This Winter, King John and two new plays are coming to the Swan Theatre, curated by Erica Whyman. In the Royal Shakespeare Theatre we have The Boy in the Dress - an onstage musical adaptation of David Walliams' first book!.

Royal Shakespeare Company & Nigel Hess. 3. 'O mistress mine' (2017) Instrumental. Royal Shakespeare Company & Nigel Hess. 4. "If I did love you in my master's flame" (feat. Dinita Gohil & Kara Tointon). Beruce Khan, Michael Cochrane, John Hodgkinson & Vivien Parry]. 8. 'Come Away, Death' (2017).

ENSEMBLE: Royal Shakespeare Company. CONDUCTOR: Nigel Hess. More from this artist.

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The Swan Down Gloves was an exuberant Shakespearean pantomime, the story-line loosely revolving around the idea of taking a pair of gloves (Shakespeare’s father being a glover) to London for Queen Elizabeth. Bille Brown, who wrote the play, had been playing a range of small parts: Barnardo in Hamlet, Le Beau in As You Like It, Lovel in Richard III, giving him plenty of time to observe, and to get writing. Joe Melia, who played one of the murderers in the Shakespeare moved up by donning Richard III’s costume and declaring a hose, a hose, my kingdom for a hose. Julia Tobin and Alan Howard in The Swan Down Gloves. Actors who’d played small parts were allowed to shine.

The swan down gloves. Music by Nigel Hess, Lyrics by Bille Brown and Nigel Hess, Book by Bille Brown. Aldwych Theatre London 22 December, 1981. As the curtain rises, Mazda, the Master of the Shadows, tries to steal the Swan Down Gloves but he is prevented by Lumina, the Lady of Light, who banishes the darkness and brings the morning to the village of. Both gloves are gone with less than a mile to London. Their hopes seem dashed. Poised on the brink of disaster - and a watery death - we come to the end of Act I. As the curtain rises on Act II Dame Rosie is stuck in the frozen River Thames and sinking fast but Lumina comes to the rescue. Will has a plot in hand and there is a plan afoot to recover the lost Gloves.

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