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Article: Henry V: Can't See the Play For the Chairs.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2003
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Byline: John Heilpern
Once more unto the breach, my friends--and this is some breach. We've long known that the Public Theatre's Shakespeare in the Park is a high-risk venture each summer. Anything can happen, and anything usually does. But Mark Wing-Davey's wayward production of Henry V with Liev Schreiber takes the strudel.
Henry V must be about the most overproduced play in the world today. It's about the justification for war, of course, and the moral responsibility of war. Shakespeare wrote the play during England's dubious military expedition to Ireland in 1599 led by the Queen's favorite, the Earl of Sussex. The play itself thrives best during ...