The Life of King Henry VIII: All is True

’Who knows yet
But from this Lady may proceed a gem
To lighten all this isle’

You know the story: a King who turns his country upside down to try and secure a male heir. But it’s never been told this way before.

A Queen fights for justice. A Lady provokes reformation. But in the absence of a son, can
a Princess change the future?

See the story of Henry VIII from a female perspective: this exploration of love, lineage and power by Shakespeare’s Globe Writer in Residence (2022) Hannah Khalil unfolds in a new way.

Hannah Khalil is an award-winning writer. She had her first short play, Ring, selected for the Soho Theatre’s Westminster Prize and her first full- length piece, Leaving Home, staged at the King’s Head, London. A commission for Rose Bruford at Battersea Arts Centre followed, and she subsequently received support from The Peggy Ramsay Foundation to write Stolen Or Strayed, which received a Special Commendation in the Verity Bargate Award. Further work includes Plan D (published by TCG in their volume Inside/OutsideSix plays from Palestine and the Diaspora), whichwas produced at Tristan Bates Theatre, London, and was nominated for the Meyer Whitworth Award. She has worked with the National Theatre Studio, Royal Court Young Writers’ Programme and Tinderbox Theatre, Belfast