The poetry of Henry VI sounds beautiful and fresh but the story is necessarily rushed and the frantic doubling-up of actors is confusing.'
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Here, ‘Henry VI’ (a three-and-a-quarter-hour edit of original parts two and three) is rendered atmospherically and interestingly...'
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...pertinent food for thought in this gruesome age of rampant despots...In combination [with Richard III] the result is an 18-certificate mini-fest of relentless intrigue, brutal death and rampant psychosis.'
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This bloody, tangled tale of royal intrigue and succession management is given a rousing, churning momentum in a production that is co-directed by Sean Holmes and Ilinca Radulian.'
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Staging that starts strategically static swells and loosens as the schisms grow...It’s caustic, compressed and compelling.'
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If it’s blunt at times, the production also brings a clarity to all the power-playing and betrayal, and, crucially, though long, it is never, ever boring, never ever dull.'
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It's a saga of endless tergiversations, told with alternating wit and brutality that only become absurd when Shakespeare does, in the last act...'
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