Henry V

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1994 production of Henry V. Directed by Matthew Warchus with Iain Glen as Henry.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 23 Jul 1994
Duration: 205 mins

Director

Matthew Warchus

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Mark Vibrans

Production Design

Neil Warmington

Cast

Iain Glen	King Henry V
Tony Britton	Chorus
Ewan Hooper	Archbishop of Canterbury
Monica Dolan	Katherine
Gwynn Beech	Dauphin
Adrian Irvine	Alexander Court
Adrian Irvine	Duke of Orleans
Anthony Naylor	Constable of France
Christopher Killen	Child
Clive Wood	Pistol
Colin Jarrett	Duke of Gloucester
Colin Jarrett	Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham
Daniel Evans (2)	Boy (Falstaff’s page)
David Beames	Duke of Exeter
David Hounslow	Bardolph
David Hounslow	Michael Williams
Edward Holmes	Child
Ewan Hooper	Earl of Grandpre
Gwynn Beech	Earl of Westmoreland
Janice McKenzie	Queen Isabel
Janice McKenzie	Governor of Harfleur
Joanna McCallum	Alice
Joanna McCallum	Hostess, formerly Mistress Quickly
Jonathan Woolf	Child
Julia Crane	Attendant
Ken Dudley	Duke of York
Kevin Doyle	Duke of Bourbon
Kevin Doyle	Bishop of Ely
Lee Aaker	Duke of Burgundy
Liam O’Callaghan	Sir Thomas Erpingham
Liam O’Callaghan	King Charles VI of France
Linal Haft	Ambassador
Linal Haft	Fluellen
Matthew Hopkins	Child
Nigel Cooke	Nim
Nigel Cooke	Montjoy
Quill Roberts	Duke of Berry
Quill Roberts	John Bates
Sean O’Callaghan	Macmorris
Sean O’Callaghan	French soldier (Le Fer)
Simon Pollard	Child
Steven Elliott	Gower
Steven Elliott	Richard, Earl of Cambridge
Tim Griggs	Earl of Warwick
Zachary Gregory	Child

Notes: A recording was also made of the performance at the Barbican Theatre 7 September 1995.
History: Press night 10 May 1994
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: Shaughnessy, Robert. ‘The Last Post: Henry V, War Culture, and the Postmodern Shakespeare’ Theatre Survey 39, no. 1 (1998), pp 41-61.
[Explores the effects of irony, displacement, and disjunction of postmodern cinema on Royal Shakespeare Company productions in the 1980s and early 1990s; then focuses on Matthew Warchus’s Henry V, comparing its engagement with war to that in Laurence Olivier’s film.]

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