Every Man In His Humour
by Ben Jonson
This was a Royal Shakespeare Company revival of Ben Jonson’s rarely performed comedy, staged at the newly opened Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, opening on 15 May 1986. The production played in repertoire for the rest of the year and transferred to the Mermaid Theatre in London, opening on 13 April 1987 and playing in repertoire until 1st September. Every Man in His Humour played for a total of 134 performances.
The text was a conflation by the director of Jonson’s two very different versions of 1598 and 1616 and was published as a Methuen Paperback in partnership with the RSC. For a detailed description of this adaptation, please refer to the introduction in the published text.
Creative Team
| Directed by John Caird | |
| Designed by | ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Blane)[Sue Blane |
| Lighting by Wayne Dowdeswell | |
| Sound by | John Leonard |
| Fights by Malcolm Ransom | |
| Company Voice Work by | Cicely Berry |
| Music Director | Guy Woolfenden |
| Design Assistant | Jill Jowett |
| Stage Manager | Richard Oriel |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Jondon Gourkan/Chantal Hauser |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Sarah Myatt/Jan Bevis Hughes |
Cast
| Old Kno’well | Tony Church |
| Brainworm, *his servant* | David Haig |
| Master Stephen, *his nephew* | Paul Greenwood |
| Servant | Roger Moss |
| Ed Kno’well, *Old Kno’well’s son* | Simon Russell Beale |
| Master Matthew | Phillip Franks |
| Cob, *a water-carrier* | David Troughton |
| Tib, *his wife* | Susie Fairfax |
| Captain Bobadill | Peter Postlethwaite |
| Thomas Kitely | Henry Goodman |
| Thomas Cash, *his clerk* | Gary Love |
| George Downright, *brother to Wellbred* | Jeremy Pearce |
| Dame Kitely | Jane Galloway |
| Bridget, *Kitely’s sister* | Joely Richardson |
| Wellbred, *brother to Downright* | Nathaniel Parker |
| Justice Clement | Raymond Bowers |
| Roger Formal, *his clerk* | Mark Lindley |
| Clement’s servant | Roger Moss |
| at the Mermaid Theatre… | |
| Old Kno’well | Stuart Richman |
| Bridget | Jane Lancaster |
| For the second half of the run at the Mermaid | |
| Captain Bobadill | Jim Carter |