Elliot Cowan, Jamie Parker, Laura Rogers, et al. Set for Shakespeare’s Globe Season

Additional details have been announced for Shakespeare’s Globe‘s 2010 season, which has the title Kings and Rogues.

The season will open with Lucy Bailey’s production of Macbeth (April 23-June 27), which will star Elliot Cowan in the title role and Laura Rogers as Lady Macbeth.

It will be followed by Mark Rosenblatt’s production of Henry VIII (May 15-August 21) starring Dominic Rowan; Dominic Dromgoole’s productions of Henry IV Part 1 (June 5-October 2) and Henry IV Part 2 (July 3-October 3), starring Jamie Parker and William Gaunt; and a revival of Christopher Luscombe’s 2008 staging of The Merry Wives of Windsor (August 14 -October 2).

The Globe will also present two new plays: Howard Brenton’s Anne Boleyn (July 24-August 21), which will be directed by John Dove; and Nell Leyshon’s Bedlam (September 5-October 1), a fictional portrayal of a London hospital for the insane.

For further information, visit www.whatsonstage.com.