Henry 6, a two-part world premiere adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, is currently running at The Old Globe's Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. The simultaneous productions, One: Flowers and France and Two: Riot and Reckoning, are adapted and directed by Barry Edelstein, the Globe's Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director.
In Henry 6, two ruling families of England, the Yorks and the Lancasters, fight each other in a
high-stakes civil war for power known as the Wars of the Roses. One: Flowers and France runs June 30-September 14, with an official opening July 19; while Two: Riot and Reckoning runs July 9-September 15, with an official opening July 20.
See photos from both productions below.
Company of Henry 6 – One: Flowers and France
Keshav Moodliar and Ian Lassiter in Henry 6 – One: Flowers and France
Tally Sessions in Henry 6 – One: Flowers and France
Cassia Thompson in Henry 6 – One: Flowers and France
Mike Sears, Ian Lassiter, Elizabeth A. Davis, Keshav Moodliar, and Victor Morris in Henry 6 – One: Flowers and France
Company of Henry 6 – Two: Riot and Reckoning
Ian Lassiter, William DeMeritt, Gregg Mozgala, and Keshav Moodliar in Henry 6 – Two: Riot and Reckoning
Keshav Moodliar in Henry 6 – Two: Riot and Reckoning
Elizabeth A. Davis, Cassia Thompson, and company of Henry 6 – Two: Riot and Reckoning
William DeMeritt and company of Henry 6 – Two: Riot and Reckoning
The cast features Elizabeth A. Davis, William DeMeritt, Sofia Jean Gomez, Alex Guzman, Mahira Kakkar, Ian Lassiter, Jake Millgard, Keshav Moodliar, Victor Morris, Gregg Mozgala, Mike Sears, Ella Serrano, Tally Sessions, Cassia Thompson, Danny Adams, Kevin Alicea-Minor, Jose Balistrieri, Luana Fontes, Chris Hathaway, Madeline Grace Jones, Angelynne Pawaan, Carter Piggee, Akoni Steinmann, Vandous Stripling II, Emma Svitil, Michael Underhill, and Lisa VillaMil. Casting is by Alaine Alldaffer, CSA and Lisa Donadio.
The Henry 6 Corps are Layth Haddad, Gerardo Navarro, Ella Serrano, and Alejandra
Villanueva. The company also includes musicians Nathan Hubbard and Martín
Martiarena.
“Henry 6, five years in the making, is a very special project to me and to The Old Globe,” Edelstein said in a statement. “The show does a great many very exciting things. First, it gives me the chance to celebrate what makes these rarely seen plays so great: wonderful characters and an epic story full of battles and poetry and politics and even spirituality. Second, it allows the Globe to join a small group of American theatres that have produced every single Shakespeare play. Third, it helps the Globe bring its professional artmaking and its community-based work closer together: by summer’s end, over a thousand San Diegans will have participated directly in the creation of these shows, cheek-by-jowl with nationally renowned theatre makers. And fourth, it will be the biggest Shakespeare production this theatre—and I—have ever attempted. All this will come together in a summer of Shakespeare that no Globe supporter will ever forget.”
Joining Edelstein on the creative team are scenic designer Lawrence E. Morten III, costume designer David Israel Reynoso, lighting designer Mextly Couzin, sound designer Melanie Chen Cole, projection designer Caite Hevner, fight direction by Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, voice and text coaches Emmelyn Thayer and Jesse Perez, and production stage manager Jess Slocum. The production also features choreography by Chelsey Arce and original music by Julián Mesri.
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