Tony Award-winning director Garry Hynes and Ireland’s Druid Theatre Company make their fourth Lincoln Center Festival appearance with the highly anticipated DruidShakespeare: The History Plays.
Visionary playwright Mark O’Rowe’s thrilling adaptation distills four action-packed plays—Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), and Henry V—into an epic story of families, wars, and the making of nations.
DruidShakespeare opens with the existential struggle of Richard II as he topples from his divinely appointed throne to find himself an all-too-human man, overthrown by Bolingbroke. The tension builds as Bolingbroke, now Henry IV, jeopardizes the crown and alienates himself from his subjects and advisors with persistent arrogance. His son and successor, Prince Hal/Henry V, must then cast aside his youthful vices and companions (including Falstaff) to find redemption for his country.
Shows play in repertory with full marathon on weekends
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
Part of Lincoln Center Festival 2015
