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Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts i and ii into a single three-act play covering Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign was last produced in New York in 2003 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater where it won multiple Tony Awards, as well as a special Drama Desk Award. In these beloved and gripping epic history plays from the 1590s, Shakespeare explores timeless questions about legitimate authority and how the private lives of rulers conflict with their public lives. A king beset with nagging doubts about his means of acquiring power frets over the dissolute habits of his wastrel son. Who will prove worthy? How is worthiness measured? No characters the Bard ever created are more vivid or indelible than the ones carousing, warring, sniping and mercilessly tricking one another in these sweeping dramas about civil war. Director Eric Tucker is the artistic director of Bedlam theatre company, “the adventurously lo-fi theater troupe that has earned a reputation for joyfully reinvigorating classic texts.” (Sara Holdren, New York Magazine).
Show Notes: 2 intermissions
Director
Eric Tucker
Written by
William Shakespeare, adapted by Dakin Matthews
