Presented by Theater@First
A New Adaption of William Shakespeare’s Histories
Directed by Shelley MacAskill
August 21st – 30th
Unity Somerville
6 William Street, Somerville
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Review by Danielle Rosvally
(Somerville) Shakespeare’s histories can be problematic to bring to the stage. In these plays, the usual issues of Shakespearean verse and thick language are compounded with cinematic scope, characters sometimes too big to be readily believable, and all kinds of crazy epic battle scenes. Compounding two histories into one doubles the trouble. Henry the 4th is a conflation of the two parts of Henry IV relying mostly upon part 1 with some of the more salient and dramatic moments of part 2 tacked onto the play’s end. Continue reading
