Film

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death

7.019902h 5m

Director: Don Taylor
Year: 1990

The ageing William Shakespeare has retreated to Warwickshire in search of an elusive inner peace. Disillusioned by human cruelty he is further dismayed to find the greed and injustices that drove him from London to Stratford are as prevalent in his rural retreat as they were in the capital. (BBC Genome)

Top cast

David Suchet

Shakespeare

Brenda Bruce

Old Woman

Peter Jeffrey

William Combe

Kenneth Haigh

Ben Jonson

Ruth Mitchell

Judith

George Malpas

Old Man

Greg Hicks

Son

Madeleine Church

Young Woman

Zena Walker

Joan

Tim Preece

Wally

Directed by

Don Taylor

Written by

Edward Bond

Produced by

Tim Ironside Wood