Royal Shakespeare Company Cymbeline

Britain is in crisis An ineffectual Queen Cymbeline rules over a divided dystopian Britain Consumed with grief at the death of two of her children Cymbelines judgment is clouded When Innogen the only living heir marries her sweetheart Posthumus in secret an enraged Cymbeline banishes him Behind the throne a powerhungry figure plots to seize power by murdering them both In exile Innogens husband is tricked into believing she has been unfaithful to him and in an act of impulsive jealousy begins a scheme to have her murdered Warned of the danger Innogen runs away from court in disguise and begins a journey fraught with danger that will eventually reunite Cymbeline with a longlost heir and reconcile the young lovers