Henry VI: The Battle for the Throne

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s small-scale touring production of Henry VI. Part 3. Directed by Katie Mitchell with Jonathan Firth as Henry VI.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 6 Sep 1994
Duration: 171 mins

Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Textual information: Katie Mitchell drew heavily on the octavo text. The production was relatively uncut with minor additions from Richard II, Richard III and Gorbuduc to underline the theme of civil war.
Reviews: Hodgdon, Barbara ‘Making it new: Katie Mitchell Refashions Shakespeare-History’ in Novy, Marianne Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance (New York:St Martin’s Press, 1999), pp13-33.
[Examines how Katie Mitchell, in her 3 Henry VI utilises "women’s bodies and voices to intervene in a narrative centered on constructing masculine kings and re-engendering a dynastic heritage"]

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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Jonathan Firth	King Henry VI
Ruth Mitchell	Queen Margaret
John Keegan	Earl of Warwick
Tom Smith	Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III
Chris Garner	Keeper
Chris Garner	Duke of Exeter
Declan Conlon	Father that killed his son
Declan Conlon	Tutor
Declan Conlon	Marquess of Montague
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart	Earl of Northumberland
Jamie Hinde	Lord Clifford
Jo Stone-Fewings	George, Edward’s brother, later Duke of Clarence
Liz Kettle	Lady Elizabeth Gray
Lloyd Owen	Edward, Earl of March, later Edward IV
Nick Bagnall	Gabriel Thorpe
Stephen Simms	King Louis
Stephen Simms	Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York
Tam Williams	Lieutenant
Tam Williams	Son that killed his father
Tam Williams	Edmund, Earl of Rutland