Henry the Fifth
by William Shakespeare
Town & Gown Players, 2001-2 Second Stage season
Dina directed the modern-dress production (for the Town & Gown Second Stage). She chose modern dress because the Second Stage budget would not cover anything else. Given that constraint, she went on to set the action as if France and England were two big corporations slugging it out in the market.
For the same reason, she put the show up on the recycled set from Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Click here for some pages of background on the set used in that show.
Playing the Duke of Exeter was a punch in the arm. I wore a coat-pocket handkerchief for the first time since I began dressing myself, and I got to kick sand in Drew's face (no, no, not actual sand, which the show could not afford, but metaphoric sand). A fun role, except not so much on the evening when the King of France dismissed Westmoreland and me before we got to give our good speeches and eat his pretzels.
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Henry the Fifth