Sunday, July 31, 2011
This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review
from John of Gaunt's speech about the sceptred isle (that's our one) in
The two parts of
Elsewhere, things are not so blithe. The clever Tom Mison has thought about Prince Hal so hard that he's worried him out of existence: he's preening (which makes sense) but too vain to capture a heart. He treats each line as if it were an adventure in self-assertion, accompanying phrases with sign language: at the name of God, he crosses himself; when he talks about being here, he points to the ground. His speeches seem to take ages, as if each were a mini-Beckett play.
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