Shakespeare Globe

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare

His sharpest satire

26 July - 3 October

Timon, a rich and generous Athenian, showers everyone with gifts and hospitality. When the money runs out Timon turns to his 'friends' for help. One by one they refuse. Timon, enraged and penniless, leaves Athens for life in the wilderness where he discovers a hidden cache of gold. Having no use for the money, Timon plans his revenge on the city.

A ruthless dissection of greed and flattery, Timon of Athens sees absurd comedy and gilded language veer suddenly into tragic satire and savage invective.

Lucy Bailey and designer William Dudley exhilarated and thrilled audiences with their sell-out production of Titus Andronicus here in 2006. Joining them is celebrated jazz composer Django Bates, who created the 'thrilling score' (The Times) for Titus, Punchdrunk associate director and choreographer Maxine Doyle who most recently devised the 'extraordinary feats of choreography' (The Observer) for The Masque of the Red Death at the BAC.

Simon Paisley Day's recent theatre work includes The Ugly One at the Royal Court and the West-End hit The 39 Steps.

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