King Henry VIII

Synopsis: Video recording of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Henry VIII directed by Gregory Doran with Paul Jesson as Henry VIII and Jane Lapotaire as Queen Katherine.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 8 Nov 1996
Duration: 173 mins

Notes: The production was also videotaped at the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music on 29 May 1998 and is catalogued separately.
History: First performed in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon November 20 1996. The production went to New York and Washington before returning for a run at the Old Vic, London.
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
Reviews: Smallwood, Robert Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearian Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
[Includes chapters in which Paul Jesson and Jane Lapotaire discuss their roles as Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon in Gregory Doran’s production].

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Paul Jesson	King Henry VIII
Jane Lapotaire	Queen Katherine
David Collings	Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ian Hogg	Cardinal Wolsey
Claire Marchionne	Anne Boleyn
Barry Aird	Porter’s Man
Cherry Morris	Old Lady
Darrell D’Silva	Lord Sandys
Darrell D’Silva	Cardinal Campeius
David Beames	Duke of Suffolk
David Hobbs	Griffith
Eileen Battye	Patience
Guy Henry	Lord Chamberlain
Jo Stone-Fewings	Earl of Surrey
John Kane	Duke of Norfolk
Nadine Marshall	Inez
Orlando Seale	Sir Thomas Lovell
Paul Bentall	Gardiner, later Bishop of Winchester
Paul Bentall	Surveyor
Paul Greenwood	Duke of Buckingham
Rex Obano	Lord Caputius
Robert Whitelock	Thomas Cromwell

British Universities Film & Video Council