'Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none…' but how much right or wrong does Helen (Ruby Bentall) do in her pursuit of Bertram (Kit Young)?
The company of All’s Well That Ends Well in a race against the clock as they unravel the twists and turns of this complicated romance in 60 seconds! Will Helen's love remain unrequited? Can trickery lead to a happy ending? And will all really end well in this tangled web of love, pride, and ambition?
Join Kit Young (Bertram), William Robinson (Paroles), Ruby Bentall (Helen), Georgia-Mae Myers (Diana), Richard Katz (The King of France) and Adam Wadsworth (Morgan) from the All's Well That Ends Well company as they (try to) summarise the plot of All's Well That Ends Well in 60 seconds. Directed by Chelsea Walker, our production runs from 8 November 2024 – 4 January in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: https://bit.ly/AllsWellThatEndsWellSWP25 _____________________
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‘And let us ... on your imaginary forces work.’ — Henry V, Prologue
No, we need to be, we need to be on it, kid.
Yeah, you want it?
I'm on it.
Yeah, I'm on it.
On it like a carb, on it.
Helen.
Yes.
In love with...
Bertram.
Bertram, okay.
Parola's on the side.
Helen loves Bertram.
Bertram doesn't love Helen.
He is now the Count because his father has recently died.
He now has to go live in Paris with the King, who is very ill.
With a fistula.
He's not gonna make it.
No.
Meanwhile, Helen...
Is the daughter of...
A famous doctor.
Her father's also died.
Helena, who has grown up in his house, is devastated.
Absolutely devastated, yes.
She adores him and absolutely loves him.
Then Parola's comes in and he inspires her actually to come up with a great plan to go cure the sick King.
And he goes off to Paris with his friend Parola's.
Hi.
And meanwhile, Helen...
Follows him to Paris.
She cures the King.
And then the King's like, hey, pick a husband.
And she picks Bertram.
Bertram is not happy.
Mm-hmm.
He's gobsmacked.
Doesn't want to do it.
But Bertram doesn't want to do it.
The King forces them to get married.
And he's like, the only way I'll be your husband is if you give me this ring back that's on my finger.
And get pregnant with me.
But you can't get pregnant with me because you can't have sex with me.
It is like, I won't consummate the marriage I'm going.
Very important.
Bertram then runs away to the wars.
To Italy with Parola's.
With Parola's.
Hi.
He gets kidnapped and they kill him.
And he's fine.
Fights in the foreign time war, does pretty well in them.
Then in Italy he meets Diana.
He falls in love with Diana.
Yes, he.
Helena.
Decides that she's going to carry on trying to get Bertram and she...
Follows him to Italy and finds out.
So she decides that she's going to use Diana.
Oh my god.
Ten seconds.
Running out of time.
There's a whole trick where...
So he does consummate the marriage.
Does it all end well?
Who knows?
Who decides?
Doo doo.
Diddly doo.
Boom.
Death.
An all's well that ends well.
Or does it?
Well, we didn't do that one.
That's pretty good.
We did.
We got the whole scene out.
