Heinrich IV

Alternative title: Henry IV
Synopsis: A video recording, using a single camera, of Henry IV for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich directed by Ruediger Burbach. Stefan Lahr is King Henry and Matthias Scheuring is Falstaff. The production was set in a Utopia with the events and relationships portrayed as a family soap opera.
Language: German (Switzerland)
Country: Switzerland
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 1999

History: The production opened 23 October 1999.
Textual information: Translated into German by Wolfgang Swaczynna. Adapted by R. Burbach, W. Swaczynna, and Wolfgang Stockmann.
Reviews: Jauslin, Christian. Shakespeare Jahrbuch 137 (2001): 191-98 (in review-article).

Stefan Lahr	King Henry IV
Norman Schenk	Prince Henry (Hal)
Matthias Scheuring	Sir John Falstaff
Susanne Haeusler	Mistress Quickly
Andrea Bettini	Archibald, Earl of Douglas
Andrea Bettini	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Andrea Bettini	Ralph Mouldy
Andreas Kraemer	Francis Feeble
Isabell Fischer	Poins
Kai Moeller	Peter Bullcalf
Kai Moeller	Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March
Katharina Schmolzer	Sir Walter Blunt
Katharina von Bock	Doll Tearsheet
Katharina von Bock	Lady Percy
Klaus Knuth	Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester
Lorenz Claussen	Earl of Westmoreland
Lorenz Claussen	Bardolph
Lorenz Claussen	Owen Glendower
Norman Schenk	Simon Shadow
Stefan Lahr	Thomas Wart

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