Henry V

The Graduate Dramatic Society (GRADS) proudly announces its thirteenth annual Summer Shakespeare production, and its first of Shakespeare’s Historical plays - The Life of Henry V.

“Henry V is a thundering celebration of a popular English monarch.”

Henry V is Shakespeare’s most popular historical drama, a fact that was celebrated by its performance in London at the opening of the New GLOBE Theatre in June 1997.
It is the last of a quartet of plays recounting a particular period in English political history, although it is not necessary to know the preceding plays (Richard II, Henry IV 1, Henry IV 2) to understand, be stirred by, or just to enjoy Henry V itself.

“A rousing historical epic of an ambitious king and a nation at war.”

Henry V is, by today’s standards, a populist blockbuster. It takes a well-known story about a popular heroic figure and adapts events from their life into an action-packed spectacle.
Henry V will be staged during March 2007 in the University of Western Australia's iconic New FORTUNE Theatre - the only replica Elizabethan theatre in the southern hemisphere.
This offers a rare opportunity to see Shakespeare’s most popular History, performed on the same type of stage as that on which it would have first been produced in 1599.

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