Theatre review
Henry V Pop-Up Globe Theatre until Sunday May 14 Dione Joseph
Chris Huntly-Turner plays the redoubtable Henry. Persuasive, passionate and poised, his impassioned speech has the crowd listening in hushed silence.
The company consists of excellent performers and they create rich, compelling and crisp characters. Stanley Jackson as the Dauphin, Rawiri Paratene as Exeter and Joe Dekkers-Reihana deserve a special mention, especially the latter as Princess Katherine.
Gregory’s experience as a director, but also as a lover of Shakespeare, is reflected in this production where all performers are equal players. To his credit, there is much humour in this heavily testosterone-fuelled narrative and Oscar West’s music adds a throbbing drum beat to the soundtrack of the play.
The audience interaction is just right and the effective rabble-rousing techniques bring excitement and participation that takes us right back to the London of old, or at least as we would begin to imagine it. operate farms with high standards in environmental sustainability and animal welfare. But the switch to value over volume is a big transformational leap and when you’ve got shareholders expecting a dividend each year that takes time. Maori tend take a longer-term view that your mokopuna’s mokopuna should inherit the land in a better state than when you got it. For us, the land is a place to go home to and stand. In fact, my dad was born in one of our paddocks. Land for my family is like a historic archive.
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