Drama on 3

Emma Harding's adaptation of William Shakespeare's play..Ineffectual ruler Cymbelin governs a divided, insular Britain, alienated from the rest of Europe, refusing to pay the taxes demanded by a foreign power, clinging to mythical notions of sovereignty. His judgement is clouded by grief, having lost his two older children as babies, and when his daughter Imogen rebels and marries Posthumus in secret, Cymbeline is enraged and banishes hsi new son-in-law. But waiting in the wings is a power-hungry figure, plotting to seize control by any means necessary. Lydia Wilson, Michael Maloney and Greta Scacchi star, with an introduction by Professor Edith Hall.