Henry the Tenth (Part Seven)
- Short Play, Comedy, Contemporary
- 9M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573100055
This is part four of The Coarse Acting Show 2 (Further Plays for Coarse Actors).
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Description
- Short Play
- Comedy
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Performance Group:
- Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
This is part four of The Coarse Acting Show 2 (Further Plays for Coarse Actors). It is a rarely-performed masterpiece (from a suggestion by William Shakespeare) with battle scenes of which the Bard would have been proud. Everything which can go wrong does go wrong: sets collapse, actors fail to appear on stage, props fall the pieces, but the Coarse cast carry on, firmly believing that the audience won't notice a thing.
Contained in the volume The Coarse Acting Show 2 (Further Plays for Coarse Actors).
REVIEWS:
Contained in the volume The Coarse Acting Show 2 (Further Plays for Coarse Actors).
REVIEWS:
"The best thing about the evening is the breakneck pace...at which so much happens with such split-second timing there's too much for one pair of eyeballs to take in."
Larry Stark, The Theatre Mirror
Characters
- Casting: 9M, 4F
MASTER CLODPONY
MASTER HAYSEED
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
CHORUS (AS PROLOGUE)
DRUMMER
KING HENRY X
LORD UXBRIDGE
LORD AMERSHAM
LORD ONGAR
HERALD
CUTHBERT, EARL OF WOLVERHAMPTON
LORD DUDLEY
BARON SMETHWICK
QUEEN CATHERINE
OLD MEG, NURSE
LADY UXBRIDGE
LORDS AND LADIES OF THE COURT
KING'S FOOL
FRENCH MESSENGER
ARMY LOYAL TO THE KING
GROT
MUD
BRONCHIO
PIZZLE
DRONIO
ARMY LOYAL TO WOLVERHAMPTON
NORFOLK
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
TEWKESBURY
EVESHAM
BIRMINGHAM
