Henry V

On Monday night we went to see a Shakespeare performance by BYU's duck pond. It's a company called Grassroots Shakespeare who wants to perform plays just like people did in Shakespeare's time. So they don't have a director (I never even knew that Shakespeare wasn't the director!), they make their own costumes, and they only perform on a wooden stage (with a backdrop). They also do double-casting for most of the roles, and don't rehearse for very long before the actual performance.

I thought that it was really well done! Their play was really enjoyable. They had the audience cheer and boo and shout things at the actors which was fun. My only regret is not reading Henry V before watching it. I must confess I have only ever seen the movie version. Shakespearean language is a lot harder to follow in verbal form rather than written form. So I sometimes couldn't understand what the actors were saying.

But they were great at projecting so I could easily hear everything, and their acting was good, and I thought their costumes were awesome.