Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.
as Henry V
as Queen Isabel
as Duke of Bourbon/Alexander Court
as Princess Katherine/ Boy
as Duke of Exeter
as Montjoy/ Monsieur le Fer/Sir Thomas Grey
as Pistol
as Louis the Dauphin/Lord Scroop
as Captain Gower
as King of France/ Nym/ Sir Thomas Erpingham
as John Bates/Duke of York
as Earl of Westmoreland/Captain Macmorris
as Captain Fluellen/Bishop of Ely
