Stephen Brown-Fried (Director of our award-winning Awake and Sing!) returns to NAATCO with a new adaptation of Henry VI, Parts 1-3. Condensed into two parts and performed in rep, experience Shakespeare’s saga of a nation spinning wildly out of control.
PRE-SHOW PREP
Augment and enrich your experience with performances of Henry VI. Come a half-hour before curtain to listen to and participate in these talks.
Series I: Tuesday, August 14 and Thursday, August 16
Speaker: Stephen Brown-Fried Learn more about the history that Shakespeare put onstage in his Henry VI plays, why that history mattered to Shakespeare’s audience, and why we think it matters today.
Series II: Thursday, August 23 and Thursday, August 30
Speaker: Michael Sexton Come with questions, share your insights, and chat with the Director of the Public Shakespeare Initiative, Michael Sexton, to enhance your experience of our performances.
Series III: Tuesday, August 28
Speaker: Vimala Pasupathi
Professor Vimala Pasupathi speaks about the women of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, in particular his depictions of Joan of Arc and Margaret of Anjou.
All three series take place at 6:30 pm in the lobby of the Mezzanine Theatre.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Fast-paced and gripping, this is an unusually lucid staging of a bloody history play, whose surfeit of schemes and villainy could make a daytime-drama writer blush. Yet for all the battles and beheadings in Stephen Brown-Fried’s handsomely designed production, never does it take death lightly. That’s one of the remarkable things about it.
Laura Collin-Hughes: New York Times
Gorgeously designed, largely well-acted, and effectively staged…with exciting choreography, suspenseful music and dramatic lighting…
Jonathan Mandell: New York Theatre
[Jon Norman] Schneider movingly portrays King Henry’s growth from a hesitant teenaged monarch…into an experienced if largely impotent leader attempting to make his voice heard.
Kim Wong’s Joan of Arc shines with clarity and power…a mixture of fervor and bravery…Mia Katigbak is both embracing and terrifying as the ambitious Duke of Gloucester.
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Set Design: Kimie Nishikawa Costume Design: Nicole Slaven Lighting Design: Reza Behjat Sound Design: Toby Algya Movement Directors: Orlando Pabotoy & Kimiye Corwin Props Master: Ryo Tatsumi Production Stage Manager: Alyssa K. Howard Assistant Stage Manager: Lilly Deerwater Assistant Director: Aneesha Kudtarkar Associate Costume Designer: Heather Stanlery Assistant Lighting Director: Stacey Derosier Assistant to the Movement Directors: Ysabel Jasa Video Design: Kate Katigbak: Postcard & Poster Design: Namu Kim Associate Producer: Peter Kim Production Manager: Libby Jensen Technical Director: Steven Brenman Producing Assistant: Sarah Machiko Haber Production Interns: Mary Estrera, Emily Rosales & Sean Seu Press Representative: David Gersten & Associates Marketing Coordinator: Sean Tecson
