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3 unusual facts about The Massacre at Paris


The Massacre at Paris

Scotland and tour - In 1981 on 30th Jan - 14th Feb there was a two week run of the play at the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, with Robert Gwilym as the Guise, and which saw a 20 year old Gary Oldman make his professional debut.

Henry Purcell set to omen to Charles IX from act V, "Thy genius, lo", in two versions, the one for baritone (Z 604a) appearing in Orpheus Britannicus.

England - In 2011 on 18th September Shakespeare's Globe's Read Not Dead project gave the play a fully staged reading, directed by James Wallace, with Linda Marlowe as Catherine de Medici, Dominic Rowan as the Guise, Ben Deery as Henry III, and Charlie Anson as Navarre.



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