Shakespeare's "King Henry IV, Part 2" from "The War of the Roses" (English Shakespeare Company, UK, 1990) is a direct filming, from the stage, of Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington's 7-play sequence based on Shakespeare's history plays.
Earl of Northumberland - Roger Booth
Lord Morton - Sion Probert
Travers - Simon Elliott
Falstaff - Barry Stanton
Falstaff's Page - John Tramper
Lord Chief Justice - Hugh Sullivan
Director Michael Bogdanov
Jane Edwardes (Time Out 15.2.89) wrote of this production:
"Even with a small cast representing vast armies and a set limited to little more than a removable gantry, the moral degradation, callousness, sweaty fear and entirely unheroic nature of war and the ruthless pursuit of power can rarely have been so graphically represented. Contemporary allusions - from the way Joan of Arc is burnt to death by necklacing to the random shooting of enemies in the back - starkly emphasise that casual brutality is not entirely unknown in this century either."
Shakespeare King-Henry-IV 2H4 Barry-Staunton play theatre
The only "shit" visable here is the feces spewing from your mouth, madviolet -
Excellent acting in all regards - BRAVO!
hummerbum706 9 months ago
Some very shit acting in this.....
madviolet 1 year ago
i would like to thank you very much for all your great work. i have all the set except for this. As the saying goes you complete me.
redbarren1 2 years ago