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...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
.... ★★★☆☆ To May 27, donmarwarehouse.com Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial Ambassadors Theatre, London It’s daggers drawn in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial too and, again, animosity...
...Henry V....
...“I don’t consciously model myself on Henry V,” he laughs, adding that the answer lies in the pluralism of the plays and the fact that they demand true ensemble playing (Doran begins the rehearsal process...
.... ★★★★★ To April 30, nationaltheatre.org.uk Henry V Donmar Warehouse, London At the Donmar Warehouse comes a much earlier scrutiny of the way national identity, war and power intersect....
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
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...We have reached the final scene of Shakespeare’s Henry V....
...From August 14, Nichols’s company will present Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor....
.... ★★★☆☆ Shoe Lady Royal Court (Jerwood Downstairs), London Everyday objects also conspire to thwart Viv in Shoe Lady, E.V. Crowe’s surreal new comedy....
...The theatre launches its summer season with a marathon run of Shakespeare’s great history plays, Henry IV (1 and 2) and Henry V....
...Terry knows from personal experience how live those plays can feel: she was performing Henry V in 2016 (playing the title role) when the referendum on EU membership took place....
...There is outright farce: when everyone in the world saw Frank Lampard’s ball cross the goal line in the 2010 England v Germany game — everyone, that is, except the referee....
...The scenario naturally calls to mind a host of wartime films and Haig also quietly references Shakespeare: the pivotal tempest; the Henry V-like passage about sending young men to war....
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...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...But E.V. Crowe’s new play opens with two women perched on stools in a simple wooden room, their hands busy with needle and thread as they compose samplers in silence. A candle flickers. Where are they?...
...The FT’s Sarah Hemming described it as “teeming with life”....
...Gus has summoned his adult children — nicknamed Pill (Richard Clothier), Empty (Tamsin Greig) and V (Lex Shrapnel) — to tell them he intends to take his own life....
...For four hours in this modern reworking of Shakespeare’s Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III, we’ve watched power won and lost, wars waged with and without conscience, leaders sinking or swimming, the lessons...
...In the same year, 1989, his film version of Henry V drew numerous comparisons with Laurence Olivier (which many said he actively sought)....
...How apt that the London opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Henry V fell on Remembrance Day....
...real Everest parts, those that encompass the greatest psychological and philosophical depth and test actors to their utmost, are men: Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth, Prospero, Richard II, Richard III and Henry V....
...It harks back, too, to Shakespeare’s famous opening to Henry V, in which he calls on the audience to work their imaginations. “Great acting is always about what you don’t do,” he says....
...Aged 32, at the height of his fame, the 18th-century castrato singer Farinelli left the stage to sing for the ailing King Philippe V of Spain — and never returned. Why?...
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