Henry V

Synopsis: Video recording of Jeanette Lambermont’s 2001 production of Henry V for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Graham Abbey is Henry.
Language: English
Country: Canada
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2 Jun 2001

Director

Jeannette Lambermont

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Barbara Young

Production Design

Dany Lyne

Cast

Graham Abbey	King Henry V
Seana McKenna	Chorus
Bernard Hopkins	Archbishop of Canterbury
Sara Topham	Katherine
Nicolas Van Burek	Dauphin
Aidan Simpson	Duke of Bedford
Andrew Linley	Lord Rambures
Barry MacGregor	Bardolph
Bernard Hopkins	Sir Thomas Erpingham
Brendan Murray	Jamy
Brendan Murray	Earl of Salisbury
Diane D’Aquila	Hostess, formerly Mistress Quickly
Diane D’Aquila	Queen Isabel
Domini Blythe	Alice
Donald Carrier	King Charles VI of France
Evan Buliung	Michael Williams
Evan Buliung	Macmorris
Haysam Kadri	Duke of York
Haysam Kadri	Richard, Earl of Cambridge
Ian Deakin	Gower
Joseph Shaw	Governor of Harfleur
Joseph Shaw	Duke of Burgundy
Keith Dinicol	Pistol
Marc R. Bondy	Duke of Gloucester
Michael Therriault	Montjoy
Paul Dunn	Boy (Falstaff’s page)
Rami Posner	John Bates
Rami Posner	Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham
Robert Hamilton	Duke of Orleans
Stephen Russell	Constable of France
Stephen Russell	Bishop of Ely
Thom Marriott	Nym
Tim Campbell	Sir Thomas Grey
Tim Campbell	Alexander Court
Timothy Askew	Earl of Westmoreland
Wayne Best	Fluellen

History: The production ran in repertory 11 May-4 November 2001
Stills: Hoile (op cit) notes `...Lyne has designed a set with a trench in the orchestra pit, a playing area on the stage apron, and a huge ramp on what looking like a ship-builder’s scaffold fallen askew--another willful misreading of the text... All the English, except Henry when in state, wear black and in battle look like World War I soldiers. The French are clad in powder blue Renaissance outfits that make the men look like members of a cross-dresser’s society’
Reviews: Jenstad, Janelle Day. Shakespeare Bulletin 21, no. 2 (2003): 48-50 (in review-article). Christopher Hoile reviewer with www.stage-door.org (accessed 1/2008). Hoile writes `...Instead of having us "eke out" the performance with our minds, she [Lambermont] has a large screen at the back of the stage showing still or moving images to set scenes and portray the action. We don’t need to "think" that we see horses when they are mentioned because she shows us a video of them. With this bit of technological hubris she ruins Shakespeare’s fullest meditation on the relation of theatre to reality’.

British Universities Film & Video Council