RSC announces full casting for HENRY V
Full casting has been announced for the RSC’s forthcoming production of Henry V, which runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 14 March-25 April.
Shakespeare’s great history play will be directed by RSC Co-Artistic Director, Tamara Harvey, which is the first play Tamara has directed in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre since becoming Co-Artistic Director, and follows her critically acclaimed productions of Pericles and The Constant Wife, which ran in the RSC’s Swan Theatre. This will be the first time that a female director has directed Henry V at the RSC in the history of the Company.
As previously announced Alfred Enoch plays the title role, reuniting him with Tamara after also playing the title role in her production of Pericles, with Catrin Aaron as Hostess/Queen Isabel/Governor of Harfleur, Micah Balfour as Exeter), Jamie Ballard as Canterbury/King of France/Williams, Diany Bandza as Scroop/Alice/Rambures, Michael Elcock as The Dauphin, Owain Gwynn as Cambridge/Orleans, Valentine Hanson as Henry IV/Grey/Erpingham, Paul Hunter as Pistol, Hanora Kamen as Ely/Gower, Natalie Kimmerling as Katharine, Sophie McIntosh as Gloucester, Emmanuel Olusanya as Bardolph/Court, Sam Parks as Westmoreland/Bates, Sion Pritchard as Fluellen, Sarah Slimani as Montjoy, Tanvi Virmani as The Girl, Ewan Wardrop as Nym/Constable, and Imogen Wilde (Swing).
The production will also feature two groups of 15 supernumeraries, drawn from the Coventry and Warwickshire area, who will be the watching crowd, soldiers and ghosts.
Tamara Harvey said: “I’m delighted to be directing in our larger theatre for the first time. Henry V has urgent questions to ask about the nature of leadership and the impact of decisions made in the corridors of power, and I can’t wait to explore the play with the exceptional cast we have assembled. Henry V was one of the first Shakespeare plays that our Henry, Alfred Enoch, ever saw. It’s a play we both love so after working together on Pericles in 2024, it felt natural that we should tackle it in a space where so many great actors have played it, albeit never before at the RSC (astonishingly) with a woman director. I feel honoured to be the first.”
Joining Tamara on the creative team are set and costume designer Lucy Osborne, lighting designer Ryan Day, composer Jamie Salisbury, sound designer Claire Windsor, movement director Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster, fight director Kate Waters, and casting director Christopher Worrall CDG.