Henry V by Shakespeare, The Baron's Men at the Curtain Theatre, September 30 - October 22

This Henry V by The Baron's Men is a feast for the eyes. The elaborate Elizabethan wardrobe of the company goes well with the gratifying outdoor setting of the Curtain Theatre, Richard Garriott's lakeside replica in miniature of the Globe. Costume designers Pam Martin and Dawn Allee are current nominees along with Jennifer Davis for Austin's B. Iden Payne stage award for outstanding costume design, for this company's 2010 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. For Henry V they've outdone even that outstanding level of accomplishment.

Their program notes acknowledge the work and care that went into these recreations -- "the more than a dozen doublets designed and manufactured for this production, as well as several different designs of pants (trunk hose, venetians, and pumpkin hose). These clothes could not have been made without the dedication and love of the troupe members who donated many hours and some very late nights to complete the costuming."

The company establishes and sustains the Elizabethan illusion by placing cast members onstage both before the piece begins and during much of the intermission. Pikesmen station themselves on watch and parade to the beaten command of drums; Henry and his confederates stand at upper center stage studying a huge, meticulously designed map of the kingdoms on both sides of the Channel. At intermission the guard is again mounted, and Pistol sits moodily at the edge of the stage.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Video: Henry V by the Baron's Men at the Curtain Theatre, September 30 - October 22

Found on-line:

present

Henry V

by William Shakespeare

at the Curtain Theatre, 7400 Coldwater Canyon (click for directions and link to map)

September 30 - October 22, 8 p.m.

General Admission $15, Students and Seniors $12

Click to purchase tickets on-line via Austix ($2.50 service charge per ticket)

Video by Chris Eckert Films:

Auditions for Henry V, Baron's Men, May 25

Found at www.austinactors.net:

The Baron's Men will be hosting auditions for their fall production of

Henry V

by William Shakespeare

on Wednesday, May 25,at 7 p.m. at The Curtain Theater - 7400 Coldwater Canyon, Austin, Texas 78730 (Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/TheCurtainTheater)

Performance dates at the Curtain Theatre: Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, Oct. 7-8, 14-15, and 21-22, 2011 at 8 p.m.

The director is Garrison Martt.

All parts are currently available. If you are interested in auditioning or would like more information, please contact Liegh Hegedus, Producer at TBMProducer@gmail.com

Audition sides will be provided or you may perform any Shakespearean monologue. Please keep monologues under 2 minutes. Bring a headshot and resume if you have one, but they are not necessary. We look forward to hearing from you! Contact: Liegh Hegedus TBMProducer@gmail.com

Upcoming: Henry V, Austin Drama Club at Community Market, February 11 - 27

Received directly from Japhy Fernandes, Artistic Director of the Austin Drama Club:

The Austin Drama Club is proud to present its 4th repertory production of HENRY V by William Shakespeare, February 11, 12,13 and 25, 26, 27 in a new space that we are designing, inside The Community Renaissance Market located @ the corner of William Cannon and Westgate.

The following is an excerpt from an interview with rock n roll DJ Toby Ryan on 101x.

TR: You were the guys that did all those Shakespeare plays in that tiny house over in East Austin!

Japhy: That’s right.

TR: What happened with that? You guys did shows there from like ...since 2006....then you just disappeared over night.

Japhy: A disgruntled actor called the fire chief Mrs. Kerr and told her a very convincing story about how we were all gonna die in flames. Mrs. Kerr then asked us for safety’s sake if we couldn’t possibly find someplace else to do our plays. We said no problem.

TR: Wasn't the city willing to work with you?

Japhy: Yes they were, but we wanted to leave that old house anyway.

TR: Where did you go?

Japhy: To the country...southwest of town with the scorpions and the snakes.

TR: Why do that?

Japhy: The same reason why we do everything. For the glory! And because it's the only warehouse we could afford to move into.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . .

Upcoming: Henry V, Austin Drama Club at Community Market, February 11 - 27

Received directly from Japhy Fernandes, Artistic Director of the Austin Drama Club:

The Austin Drama Club is proud to present its 4th repertory production of HENRY V by William Shakespeare, February 11, 12,13 and 25, 26, 27 in a new space that we are designing, inside The Community Renaissance Market located @ the corner of William Cannon and Westgate.

The following is an excerpt from an interview with rock n roll DJ Toby Ryan on 101x.

TR: You were the guys that did all those Shakespeare plays in that tiny house over in East Austin!

Japhy: That’s right.

TR: What happened with that? You guys did shows there from like ...since 2006....then you just disappeared over night.

Japhy: A disgruntled actor called the fire chief Mrs. Kerr and told her a very convincing story about how we were all gonna die in flames. Mrs. Kerr then asked us for safety’s sake if we couldn’t possibly find someplace else to do our plays. We said no problem.

TR: Wasn't the city willing to work with you?

Japhy: Yes they were, but we wanted to leave that old house anyway.

TR: Where did you go?

Japhy: To the country...southwest of town with the scorpions and the snakes.

TR: Why do that?

Japhy: The same reason why we do everything. For the glory! And because it's the only warehouse we could afford to move into.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Henry V, Austin Drama Club at Community Market, February 11 - 27

Received directly:

Hello theatre fans,


"Look at me I'm the King!" said a young boy who came to see our last production of Henry V. This action /romance by William Shakepeare is a postive series of pep talks and good will salutations towards all men. Based on the historical figure who took a rag tag army from England and won a violent battle against the French who outnumbered them 5 to 1.

You can see this newest production of Henry V in our new Austin Drama Club home at Community Renaissance Market, located at the corner of William Cannon and Westgate in south Austin.

There is plenty of seating and parking and admission is only 8 dollars at the door. Seating begins at 7:30 pm. BYOB

Performances happen on Friday , Saturday, and Sunday nights at 8 pm on Febuary 11,12, 13 and 25,26,27

visit AustinDramaClub.com to see pictures and videos from the production.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"

Japhy Fernandes...Artistic Director.... Austin Drama Club

Upcoming: Robert Faires Revisits Henry V for UT Nilsson Lecture, April 1

Received directly from UT, the word that Robert Faires will reprise part of his breath-taking solo performance of Henry V:

Robert Faires revisits the Bard for fifth annual Nilsson Lecture

The David O. Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary Drama takes yet another wild turn this year with Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires stepping in to reprise an excerpted version of his notable one-man take on Henry V.

The performance ­ titled "This is Not a Pipe" ­ will take place in the Capitol Room of the Blanton Museum of Art's Edgar A. Smith Building at 5:30 pm on Thursday, April 1. A reception beginning at 4:30 p.m. will precede the event .

The original version of Faires's Henry V played last summer at The Off Center Theater and garnered enthusiastic reviews for its combination of spare presentation and complex performance. Faires will pare down the previous adaptation while attempting to further disrupt the partition between audience and actor in this modernist perspective on Shakespeare's epic history.

The Nilsson Lecture was founded through the generosity of Dr. David O. Nilsson, a retired mathematics instructor at The University of Texas at Austin, independent scholar and Henrik Ibsen aficionado.

Past lectures have featured the Swedish novelist Lars Gustaffson (speaking on paradox in Ibsen's The Wild Duck), and director of Shakespeare at Winedale James Loehlin (on Stanislavski¹s contrarian production of The Cherry Orchard), and an entertaining panel of local playwrights including internationally-renowned Kirk Lynn and Keene Prize winner George Brant (discussing the state and fate of theater). Last year's lecture featured alternating performance and discussion of scenes from Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing featuring British actress Eunice Roberts and notable local actors Matthew Radford and David Stahl.

Please RSVP to (512)495-4363 or emcquade@austin.utexas.edu if you plan to attend.

Henry V, performed by Robert Faires at the Off Center, July 2- 25

We arrived on that hot Saturday July 4 afternoon at the Off Center to be greeted by Barbara Chisholm and a cup of champagne.

Stepping from the heat and dazzle into the cool dimness of the theatre, we found ourselves face-to-face with Robert Faires himself. He greeted us, welcomed us, and accompanied us to our choice of seats. In that small assembly we saw faces familiar to us from Austin's stages.

A woman of handsome, striking appearance stood chatting with persons in the front row as the house continued to fill. "My, this is like attending a wedding reception, isn't it?"

This is how things might have been in Henry's own court, had he had secured his kingship over both England and France. Robert Faires' Henry V that afternoon was a special entertainment before a band of acquaintances. The performer was at ease and familiar with his audience. His wife and daughter had their own roles in marshaling the spectacle. We all knew that something special was about to happen.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Henry V, a one-man presentation by Robert Faires, Red Then Productions at the Off Center, July 2 - 25

UPDATE: Jeanne Claire van Ryzin's brief interview of Robert Faires for the Austin Statesman's Austin360 "Seeing Things" blog, July 2

UPDATE: John Aielli interviews Robert Faires, Barbara Chisholm, and Catherine Weidner about Henry V, June 30

Received June 15:

Red Then Productions in a co-production with Rude Mechs presents Shakespeare’s

HENRY V

starring Robert Faires

July 2 - 25

Directed by Catherine Weidner
Lighting design by Jason Amato
Sound design by William Meadows
The Off-Center 2211-A Hidalgo www.rudemechs.com

Tickets $15, Discounts for seniors, students and groups of 8 or more. Charge by phone at 1-800-838-3006
or online at www.rudemechs.com/tickets

England’s most storied and inspirational warrior king is revealed in a new, one-man adaptation of the Shakespeare history starring B. Iden Payne Award-winning actor/director and Austin Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires.

Henry V is the culmination of an 18 year-old dream first conceived by Faires in 1991. Using Shakespeare’s instruction to the audience to use their imaginations to conjure the play’s royal courts, horses, armies, and battlefields, Faires reconceived the drama for a solo performer playing 13 characters. Over the course of 75 minutes, with only a few household props, he leads the audience from Henry’s throne across the English Channel into the French court, through a fearful war and into one of the most charming wooing scenes in Shakespeare.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .