HENRY VI

An England divided under a weak leader spirals from political unrest to all-out civil war. Allegiances are sworn and murderous factions fight for power, but with only one crown for the taking, who will be left standing to lead the country?

The first of two shows acted by the same ensemble in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. Two shows about an England diseased and fractured under empty skies – and the monsters bred by chaos. 

A semi-permanent Globe company of actors is a great idea that’s not really worked before because, frankly, they’ve not had good directors. Now they’ve got them. See these plays together, see them separately, but do try and see them, because this is the ensemble finally firing on all cylinders in an epic and exciting six hours of storytelling.

– TIME OUT