![]() ![]() Supported by the Heritage (not the Arts) Lottery Fund and staged in association with Historic Royal Palaces, this project seemed to me to belong in the sometimes uncertain ground between theatre and live interpretation. But it isn’t clear if “Fallen in Love: The Secret Heart of Anne Boleyn” is exactly a play. ![]() So a play about her, staged within yards of the place of her violent death, has to be a winner. She is one of the historical figures whose significance is in the eye, and often the heart, of the beholder. ![]() Anne Boleyn was a celebrity (yes, they did have them in the sixteenth century), a whore or a religious heroine – delete according to taste – in her own lifetime, and her legendary status is unlikely to fade. The Boleyn brand has never been more popular: novels, television series, conferences, a dozen Twitter users jostling for the name – surely the perfume and a range of lingerie called “the most happy” can’t be far behind. Fallen In Love: The Secret Heart of Anne Boleyn, by Joanna Carrick, showing at the Tower of London.Ī Guest Post by London Historians Member, Lissa Chapman ![]()
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