ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3
Opens to rave reviews at London’s Roundhouse Theatre
Directed by Michael Boyd (RSC Artistic Director)
This production of Henry VI 1, 2 & 3 is part of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Shakespeare’s complete History Cycle performed by one ensemble company of actors. Following a sell-out smash run at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, the Histories transferred to the Roundhouse in London. The Histories will play through May 25, 2008.
Daily Telegraph
May 8, 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2008/05/08/bthenry108.xml
“Michael Boyd’s knock-out production is a thrilling all-day orgy of gore-dripping violence, gallows humour and craven betrayal. Boyd’s epic English history cycle will be remembered and talked about for decades to come.” – Charles Spencer
The Guardian
May 8, 2008
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2278409,00.html
“***** FIVE STARS! Our theatre has seen nothing on this imaginative scale in years.” – Michael Billington
The Times
May 8, 2008
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/article3888378.ece
“Michael Boyd’s production is vivid and vital.Thanks to Boyd’s inventiveness and a company happy to climb ropes or be lowered from high above, the revival has an imaginative immediacy no television programme could match.” – Benedict Nightingale
For more information: www.rsc.org.uk