The Bed

FOR writer and director, Ger Fitzgibbon, trying to figure out what William Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, saw in each other, has been “the most fun” element of working on his new play, The Bed.

This one-woman show, starring Paula McGlinchey, with original music by Irene Buckley, opens with Hathaway reacting to her late husband’s curious will. As well as being a brilliant writer, the Bard was also a canny investor and became wealthy through owning extensive property in and around his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.

But he left the bulk of his estate to his eldest daughter and her husband, bequeathing his wife nothing more than his ‘second best bed.’