King Henry VIII

Synopsis: Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Henry VIII directed by Gregory Doran with Paul Jesson as Henry VIII and Jane Lapotaire as Queen Katherine.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 29 May 1998
Duration: 173 mins

Notes: The production was also videotaped at the Swan, using a single, fixed camera, by the Royal Shakespeare Company 8 November 1996. This production is catalogued separately.
History: First performed in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon November 20 1996. The production went to New York and Washington before returning for a run at the Old Vic, London.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Smallwood, Robert Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearian Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
[Includes chapters in which Paul Jesson and Jane Lapotaire discuss their roles as Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon in Gregory Doran’s production].

Paul Jesson	King Henry VIII
Jane Lapotaire	Queen Katherine
David Collings	Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ian Hogg	Cardinal Wolsey
Claire Marchionne	Anne Boleyn
Barry Aird	Porter’s Man
Cherry Morris	Old Lady
David Beames	Duke of Suffolk
David Hobbs	Griffith
Eileen Battye	Patience
Guy Henry	Lord Chamberlain
Jo Stone-Fewings	Earl of Surrey
John Kane	Duke of Norfolk
Orlando Seale	Sir Thomas Lovell
Paul Greenwood	Duke of Buckingham
Robert Whitelock	Thomas Cromwell

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