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Article: The man who would be kings
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 12, 1988
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This Friday night, Michael Pennington will stride onto the stage
of the Auditorium Theatre as King Richard II. Some three hours
later, he will be carried off in a bloody heap. Saturday morning,
and on into the afternoon, audiences will find him a new man: playing
the decadent, jeans-clad postgraduate, Prince Hal. Catch him after
dinner, however, and he will have assumed the crown, and turned into
the rousing King Henry V.
And then, to bed. To sleep, perchance to dream. But not for
long. For come Sunday morning, the actor will be back onstage in
"Henry VI, Part 1." Playing the small role of an aging member of the
royal House of York, he gets to deliver his lines from a wheelchair,
so ...