ROUNDHOUSE

From the press

Michael Billington
May 8, 2008
The Guardian

"Two years ago, Michael Boyd launched the RSC history cycle in Stratford with this epic trilogy. Now the three plays take their chronological place in the sequence and, seen at a 12-hour stretch, they continue to amaze."

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Charles Spencer
May 8, 2008
Telegraph

"By common consent, these early plays by Shakespeare aren't a patch on Richard II, the two parts of Henry IV and Henry V. Indeed, scholars are still divided over just how much of the Henry VI trilogy Shakespeare actually wrote."

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Benedict Nightingale
May 8, 2008
Times Online

"At the end of Henry V, which completed the first part of the history marathon that the RSC is running in rep at the Roundhouse, the Chorus casually remarked that the all-conquering king's son would lose France and England would bleed..."

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Maddy Costa talks to the RSC actors staging every one of Shakespeare's history plays.
March 19, 2008 The Guardian

"Over the next two months, those memories will be taxed to the limit. They're going to be performing [at the Roundhouse] all eight plays in concentrated bursts, sometimes over a nine-day period, sometimes crammed into a long weekend. Admittedly, each actor gets one play off, but that's still a lot of lines, let alone movement, to remember..."

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Jane Edwardes on the truth behind Shakespeare's royal characters.
March 25, 2008 Time Out

"If your medieval history is similarly wobbly, the Roundhouse is coming to the rescue, putting on all eight of Shakespeare’s history plays, from Richard II’s banishment of his ambitious cousin Bolingbroke in 1398 to Henry Tudor’s victory over Richard III at the battle of Bosworth in 1485."

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