Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.
Jamie Parker
as Henry V
Brid Brennan
as Queen Isabel
Graham Butler
as Duke of Bourbon/Alexander Court
Olivia Ross
as Princess Katherine/ Boy
Nigel Cooke
as Duke of Exeter
Giles Cooper
as Montjoy/ Monsieur le Fer/Sir Thomas Grey
Sam Cox
as Pistol
Kurt Egyiawan
as Louis the Dauphin/Lord Scroop
Matthew Flynn
as Captain Gower
David Hargreaves
as King of France/ Nym/ Sir Thomas Erpingham
Beruce Khan
as John Bates/Duke of York
James Lailey
as Earl of Westmoreland/Captain Macmorris
