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Broadsides Tours Jacobean Double of Henry & WomanDate: 26 February 2003
Yorkshire-based touring company Northern Broadsides apply their 'classics without frills' approach to two new productions this spring - Shakespeare's Henry V and A Woman Killed with Kindness by the bard's contemporary, Thomas Heywood. The Jacobean double bill opens tonight (26 February 2003) at the company's Halifax Viaduct home, where they runs until 8 March, before continuing to 12 further venues up to 5 June 2003.
Long-standing company member - and soon to be associate artistic director - Conrad Nelson takes the title role in Henry V, arguably the most well known of Shakespeare's history plays. Nelson has performed in many Northern Broadsides productions, most notably playing the title role in 2001's Oedipus.
The companion piece - A Woman Killed with Kindness, written by Heywood in 1603 - is domestic rural tragedy which tells the story of Anne Frankford, who lives happily with her husband until her affair with the new lodger brings about tragic consequences.
Both plays are directed by Northern Broadsides founder and artistic director Barrie Rutter and cross-cast from a company of 19 actors. Over the past decade, Northern Broadsides has built a reputation for challenging the dominant theatrical aesthetic of 'received pronunciation' by using Northern actors who speak the classics in their natural voices. The award-winning company has performed across the UK as well as in Europe, the United States, Brazil and India.
Its previous productions have included Alcestis, The Mysteries, Richard III, King John, Sophocles' Oedipus, 19th-century Yorkshire farce The Cracked Pot and last year's Macbeth.
Following Halifax, the 2003 tour visits Coventry, Kingston upon Thames, Stoke, Scarborough, Bradford, Wellingborough, Skipton, Liverpool, Bury St Edmunds, Salford, Leeds and Nottingham, where it closes on 5 June 2003.
- by Hannah Khalil
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