Henry V

Synopsis: Live sound recording of Terry Hand’s production of Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Alan Howard as Henry.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Audio
Recording date: 25 Apr 1978

Director

Terry Hands

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Guy Woolfenden

Cast

Alan Howard	King Henry V
Alfred Lynch	Chorus
Paul Imbusch	Archbishop of Canterbury
Barbara Kellermann	Katherine
Stephen Jenn	Dauphin
Anthony Naylor	Duke of Clarence
Arthur Whybrow	John Bates
Arthur Whybrow	John Bates
Barrie Rutter	Macmorris
Barrie Rutter	Richard, Earl of Cambridge
Bernard Brown	Constable of France
Charles Dance	Michael Williams
Charles Dance	Henry, Lord Scroop of Masham
David Shaw-Parker	Jamy
Desmond Stokes	Bardolph
Desmond Stokes	French soldier (Le Fer)
Edwin Richfield	Duke of Exeter
Geoffrey Hutchings	Fluellen
Geoffrey Hutchings	Bishop of Ely
Iain Mitchell	Duke of Gloucester
Jeffery Dench	Pistol
Matthew Guinness	Gower
Morris Perry	Earl of Westmoreland
Morris Perry	Sir Thomas Erpingham
Oliver Ford Davies	Montjoy
Pat Connell	Alexander Court
Philip Dunbar	Nym
Philip Dunbar	Duke of Orleans
Richard Derrington	Boy (Falstaff’s page)
Roy Purcell	King Charles VI of France
Valerie Lush	Hostess, formerly Mistress Quickly
Yvonne Coulette	Alice

Notes: An extract from Act I ii ‘Call in the messengers...this fair action may on foot be brought’ can be accessed electronically onsite at the British Library Sound Archive.
Reviews: `For Mr Howard’s superb, and I had almost said eclipsing, Henry is not a natural soldier. Whenever war approaches, doubts and distress cloud Mr Howard’s face: his Henry is made for other things than war. He fears war: but being in it he acquits himself like a pride of lions, and out of the depths of his anguish he utters some of the most ringing and thrilling calls to valour ever heard in a theatre’. (Harold Hobson. The Sunday Times. 13 April 1975).

Beauman, Sally (ed. with interviews). The Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘Henry V’ for the Centenary Season at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre. (Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co.), 1976).

British Universities Film & Video Council