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Henry V

January 2024

  • Fine performance … David Warner as Falstaff and Geoffrey Streatfeild as Prince Hal in Henry IV Part I in 2008.

    The many faces of Falstaff: Shakespeare’s tragicomic knight is as complex as Hamlet

    Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning

November 2022

  • Oliver Johnstone as Henry V.

    The week in theatre: Henry V; Vardy v Rooney; ¡Showmanism! – review

    Oliver Johnstone mesmerises as Henry V, Vardy and Rooney go head to head, and Dickie Beau lipsyncs a swarm of voices, from Hitchcock to Fiona Shaw
  • Heady need to be seen as strong … Oliver Johnstone as Henry V.

    Henry V review – a troubled king reaches for foreign quarrels

    In this coruscating production from Headlong and Shakespeare’s Globe, Henry’s grasp for power is cast in a stark light
  • Tim Adams

    By all means cry God for Harry, England and St George. Just don’t puff out your chest too far

    Tim Adams
    A new production of Henry V has been called a ‘woke King Harry’ – but Englishness has always been complex

September 2022

  • Isobel Thom (Joan), centre, in I, Joan by Charlie Josephine @ Shakespeare's Globe. Directed by Ilinca Radulian. (Opening 01-09-2022) ©Tristram Kenton 09-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    A non-binary Joan of Arc? Great. Now theatre should take the next step

    Letter: Louise Branch calls for playwrights to portray male historical figures such as Henry V as non-binary or trans

March 2022

  • Kit Harington as Henry V.

    The week in theatre: Henry V; Our Generation – review

  • Seemingly reasonable … Kit Harington and cast in Henry V.

    Henry V review – Kit Harington’s corporate tyrant wages war

February 2022

  • Kit Harington: ‘Even a sober addict can be a very selfish person.’

    Kit Harington on Henry V and life after Jon Snow: ‘We need to start dealing with male anger’

  • Henry V

    Once more unto the breach! Burton, Branagh and the battling stars of Henry V – in pictures

January 2022

  • Mark Rylance as Prospero in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe, 2005

    Hamlet, Henry V and Jerusalem’s Rooster: Mark Rylance’s stage roles – in pictures

    As the Oscar-winning actor returns to the UK boards in 2022 – first at Bristol Old Vic in Dr Semmelweis then in Jerusalem at London’s Apollo – we remember some of his theatrical highlights

June 2021

  • Kit Harington in 2019.

    Kit Harington to play Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse

    Game of Thrones star will appear in production focusing on modern political power, part of the London theatre’s reopening season

April 2021

  • Mark Rylance in Henry V, 1997

    The Bard in black and white: Shakespeare by Tristram Kenton – in pictures

    To mark the Stratford playwright’s birthday on 23 April, here are 23 shots from his plays, with a starry lineup including Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, David Harewood and Toby Jones

February 2020

  • Antony Sher (pictured with Claire Benedict) in Tamburlaine (1993).

    Terry Hands obituary

    Artistic director of the RSC, who co-founded the Liverpool Everyman theatre and revived the Clwyd Theatr Cymru

May 2019

  • DEATH OF A SALESMAN at Young Vic, May 2019

    The week in theatre: Death of a Salesman; Henry IV Part 1; Henry IV Part 2; Henry V – review

    An outstanding cast portray a family stuck together while falling apart in the Young Vic’s Death of a Salesman
  • Sarah Amankwah (Henry V) and Colin Hurley in Henry V or Harry England by The Globe Ensemble @ Shakespeare's Globe. (Opening 10-05-19)

    Henry IV Parts 1 and 2/Henry V review – a game of thrones with lots of leather

    Michelle Terry is revelatory as Hotspur and Sarah Amankwah makes a majestic Henry in a valiant if uneven trilogy
  • Sarah Amankwah and Nina Bowers backstage.

    Crowning glory: the Globe's triple helping of Henrys – in pictures

    The Globe theatre, London, kicks off its new season with Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V, performed back to back on 10 and 11 May. Photographer Tristram Kenton captured the rigours of rehearsal and the backstage buzz

June 2018

  • Heledd Gwynn as Katharine and Ben Hall as Henry V.

    Henry V review – a deeply thoughtful study of war's victors and victims

    Elizabeth Freestone’s highly kinetic production matches an often vulnerable Henry with a wonderfully punky Katharine

November 2016

  • An archaeologist works on the exposed remains of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre

    Did Shakespeare write Henry V to suit London theatre's odd shape?

    The newly excavated Curtain theatre in Shoreditch is believed to be where Henry V was first performed

August 2016

  • Kate Fleetwood in Medea, Michelle Terry in Henry V and Ben Miles in Wolf Hall

    'When you cry, you really cry': the emotional toll of stage acting

    Whatever approach they take to performance, actors often take their characters’ painful experiences – repeated night after night – away with them off stage. Kate Fleetwood, Michelle Terry and Ben Miles explain how playing murderers, heroin addicts and monarchs marked them deep inside

July 2016

  • ‘Subtle and surprising’: Michelle Terry as King Henry.

    Henry V review – if Shakespeare had done Brexit

    Michelle Terry shines in Rob Hastie’s muted production
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