New life for dead kings.
Nigel Wrench writes:
"Here's Edward III, or his tomb anyway, in Westminster Abbey. He's one of the kings brought to life in a remarkable collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company, first performance this evening within hailing distance of the king himself.
Edward III, the play, is fought over by Shakespeare scholars. Is it the bard's?
Either way: the sell-out audience will hear extracts performed by RSC actors, narrated by the abbey's canon theologian Nicholas Sagovsky, accompanied by the lay vicars of the abbey's choir, singing English music of the period.
On upcoming Tuesdays, Richard II and Henrys IV -- and V.
Henry V's head is a replacement -- and his replacement hands, says Canon Sagovsky, were modelled on Laurence Olivier's.
More on PM later, election permitting. (Both our pictures are copyright Westminster Abbey and used with their kind permission)."
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