Believe What You Will

RSC Gunpowder Season – explosive Elizabethan and Jacobean dramas of dissent, staged by the RSC in 2005. Originally entitled Believe As You List, Philip Massinger's play Believe What You Will is a powerful political thriller with a renewed topicality... A Middle-Eastern leader comes out of hiding, and is hounded from state to state by the forces of the Roman Empire who threaten sanctions and ultimately war on anyone who harbours him.