
by William Shakespeare adapted by Patrick Dooley directed
by Patrick Dooley
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Please don't
be confused if you see some suspicious dramatis personae like Falstaff
of Henry IV. I have edited in some scenes that I feel will give our
'90s audience a richer understanding of the characters and situations
in Henry V proper. Shakespeare's audience would be familiar with Prince
Hal's drinking buddies in Eastcheap, the tension that created with his
father, and the tenuous claim his family had to the crown. We cannot
in the two hours (and twenty minutes) traffic of our stage present the
entire trilogy...but we can give you a taste.

Opened: September 13, 1997
Performed: Thursday & Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm
Performed At: La
Val's Subterranean Theatre, 1834 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
Closed: October 25, 1997

Dylan Kussman, who
played King Henry V, asked me one afternoon when we were about to kick
off rehearsals, "Are you ready to get scared? 'Cause I'm fuckin'
scared." All of us went after that play and, as far as I'm concerned,
we tore it up. Period.
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Reid
Davis as Dauphin, Scroop & Williams
Beth
Donohue as Bedford, Bardolph, Alice & Fluellen
Michael Frassinelli as Exeter & Bales
Dylan Kussman* as Henry V
Richard Reinholdt as Falstaff, Westmoreland, Bourbon & Governor of
Harfluer
Michael Storm as Gloucester, Henry IV, Pistol & French King
Kara Tsiaperas as Canterbury, Constable, York & Queen Isabel
Marin Van Young as Mistress Quickly, Grey, Katherine & French Soldier
Nahid Varjavand as Ely, Boy, Cambridge, Erpingham & Salisbury
Dan Wolf as Montjoy, Nym, Court & Burgundy
*appears courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association

Patrick
Dooley, director
Michael Frassinelli, set
construction
Ringit
Gürlich,
costume design and construction
P.J.
Sonnichsen,
sound design
Benjamin Lovejoy, graphic design
Toby Sticpewich, crown construction
Patrick Dooley, artistic director

Julie Chase for SF
Weekly
Andrew
Vennekotter for The Daily
Californian
Christopher Hawthorne for The
East Bay Express
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