Alanna Mclean, Sydney Morning Herald June 16, 2014 The setting seems to be a battered school bomb shelter in 1940s’ London, where students are given Shakespeare to distract them from what is going on outside. This becomes much more than a setting. The resulting tensions and the physicality of the performances deeply support the play’s meanings. Enough of Richard II […]
Johnny Oleksinski, Chicago Tribune May 19, 2014 This Theater Loop Showcase is “Henry V” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Harry Judge stars as William Shakespeare’s young king, who, not long after assuming the throne, thrusts England into war with France. In this scene, King Henry delivers the famous St. Crispin’s Day speech, meant to inspire English troops ahead of the Battle […]
Phillip Potempa, The Times of Northwest Indiana May 9, 2014 Only in the great work of William Shakespeare‘s epic“Henry V,” do the small details, such as tennis balls, receive such royal treatment. This is the same rich, royal treatment given by celebrated British director Christopher Luscombe, in his Chicago debut, as he presents a rousing and action-packed stage telling of “Henry V,” the […]
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