Follow the link to the review of HENRY V at the Royal Shakespeare Company (follow link). This is a major large cast production with Alfred Enoch as Henry V. It should be a play for our times. We saw it before reviews came in, and I might be right out on a limb with my opinions iof it. Which are strong. See the review.
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Thank you for your review. It sounds like a bit of a car crash – the sort of production we might have expected 3 or 4 years ago. Sadly I shall be going to see it in 3 days time – not with any degree of enthusiasm I might add.
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I think this review matches my experience at the RSC on 20/3/26. I shan’t try to expand on the thoughtful description of the production, read the review and you will understand what a disappointment it was. Last season I saw Hamlet and Titus Andronicus so I was pleased to book, it’s an favourite play and I was expecting great things, I’ll hope for improvements as the season progresses.
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Fir me it was a very disappointing and underwhelming experience. Have seen many productions at Stratford but sadly this is probably the worst Enoch was mis-cast, certainly not the warrior king. I cannot say more other than I pretty much agree with the review.
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I saw this production on 21 March and I agree with this dismal assessment. I hate the import of unnecessary text from another play, plus massive cuts from the play supposedly being presented, plus numerous rewrites in the redistribution of lines to characters for whom they were not intended (Chorus) or the substitution of certain words for others (the closing sonnet in paricular). These changes served no purpose and did not improve upon the original. To add insult to injury, the wordless fight scenes were overly long and dull. I like Alfred Enoch, but this definitely is not the right vehicle for him.
My RSC memory goes back as far as Alan Howard in Henry V in 1975. I’ve seen most of them since then and this is the least interesting. It would more properly be described as an adaptation of the play.
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inspector clousseau accents, the two main speeches ruined by the direction, very lack lustre particularly the first half and a terrible elongated boring ending
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