Following the same-named historical book, this play depicts Cromwell's journey to become Henry VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is in peril. If the King dies without a son, civil war may break out. He wants to terminate his 20-year marriage and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and Europe oppose him. In enters Thomas Cromwell: an original, a charmer and a bully, idealist and opportunist, clever at reading people, and ambitious. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, the next savage. Cromwell helps him beat the opposition, but what's the cost?
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Following the same-named historical book, this play depicts Cromwell's journey to become Henry VIII's closest advisor. England in the 1520s is in peril. If the King dies without a son, civil war may break out. He wants to terminate his 20-year marriage and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and Europe oppose him. In enters Thomas Cromwell: an original, a charmer and a bully, idealist and opportunist, clever at reading people, and ambitious. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, the next savage. Cromwell helps him beat the opposition, but what's the cost?
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