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Shakespeare: Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse)
Jade Anouka (Hotspur); Sheila Atim (Gadshill, Lady Percy); Jackie Clune (Westmoreland, Glendower); Shiloh Coke (Mortimer); Karen Dunbar (Bardolph, Vernon); Clare Dunne (Prince Hal); Leah Harvey (Poins, The Douglas); Zainab Hasan (Hostess, Messenger); Jennifer Joseph (Sir Walter Blunt, Sheriff); Martina Laird (Worcester, Peto); Sophie Stanton (Falstaff); Harriet Walter (Henry IV);
"Phyllida Lloyd's tremendous all-women 'Henry IV' roughs up expectations on front after front ... Her cast look more veracious than ever before." (The Guardian ★★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry IV Part I & II Special Edition (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Jasper Britton (King Henry IV (I & II)); Antony Sher (Sir John Falstaff (I & II)); Alex Hassell (Prince Hal (I & II)); Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly (I & II)); Trevor White (Hotspur (I)); Joshua Richards (Bardolph (I & II)/Owen Glendower (I)); Oliver Ford Davies (Justice Shallow (II)); Jim Hooper (Justice Silence (II)); Martin Bassindale (Peto (I)); Antony Byrne (Pistol (II)); Sam Marks (Ned Poins (I)); Nia Gwynne (Doll Tearsheet (II));
"Shakespeare's two greatest plays have always been a defining experience for RSC directors. Gregory Doran now puts his decisive seal on the company by offering a production that, like last year's Richard II, combines richness of texture with psychological insight. It also contains a major performance from Antony Sher as Falstaff." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry IV Part I (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Jasper Britton (Henry IV); Antony Sher (Falstaff); Alex Hassell (Hal); Trevor White (Hotspur); Sean Chapman (Earl of Northumberland/Earl of Douglas); Youssef Kerkour (Earl of Westmoreland); Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Prince John); Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly); Nicholas Gerard-Martin (Carrier/Sir Michael); Jonny Glynn (Rakewell); Nia Gwynne (Lady Mortimer); Alex Hassell (Prince Hal);
"Shakespeare's two greatest plays have always been a defining experience for RSC directors. Gregory Doran now puts his decisive seal on the company by offering a production that, like last year's Richard II, combines richness of texture with psychological insight. It also contains a major performance from Antony Sher as Falstaff." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry IV Part II (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Jasper Britton (Henry IV); Antony Sher (John Falstaff); Alex Hassell (Prince Hal); Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly); Oliver Ford Davies (Justice Shallow); Jim Hooper (Justice Silence/Gower); Antony Byrne (Rumour/Porter/Pistol); Robert Gilbert (Travers/Sir John Coleville); Nia Gwynne (Doll Tearsheet/Lady Northumberland); Keith Osborne (Archbishop of York); Joshua Richards (Bardolph); Trevor White (Lord Mowbray);
"Shakespeare's two greatest plays have always been a defining experience for RSC directors. Gregory Doran now puts his decisive seal on the company by offering a production that, like last year's Richard II, combines richness of texture with psychological insight. It also contains a major performance from Antony Sher as Falstaff. But, although Sher's is the dominant performance, everything in Doran's production bespeaks long-range planning. Jasper Britton's fine Henry IV is a tormented usurper, first seen prostrate in self-abasing prayer, capable of volcanic violence: his brutal treatment of Trevor White's bolshie Hotspur in the opening scenes explains the ensuing rebellion." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Shakespeare: Henry V (Royal Shakespeare Company)
Alex Hassell (King Henry V); Jane Lapotaire (Queen Isobel); Sarah Parks (Mistress Quickly ); Leigh Quinn (Alice ); Joshua Richards (Bardolph/Fluellen); Simon Thorp (King of France); Anthony Byrne (Pistol); Sean Chapman (Exeter); Oliver Ford Davies (Chorus); Robert Gilbert (Dauphin ); Gregory Doran (Director );
"... the Shakespearean event of the autumn... this is just what the nation ordered." (The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★)
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse)
Jane Anouka (Mark Antony); Sheila Atim (Lucius); Jackie Clune (Julius Caesar); Shiloh Coke (Cinna the Poet); Karen Dunbar (Casca); Clare Dunne (Portia, Octavius Caesar); Leah Harvey (Soothsayer); Zainab Hasan (Calpurnia, Metellus Cimber); Jennifer Joseph (Trebonius); Martina Laird (Cassius); Carolina Valdés (Dog, Cinna); Harriet Walter (Brutus);
"It's not just the casting that makes it feel daring; there's also a crazed, percussive intensity, and the production abounds with weirdness, thuggery and horror. This is visceral and exciting theatre." (The Evening Standard)