THIS SEASON: Fight Director (Macbeth, Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well), Macduff and Witch #3 in Macbeth; Exeter and Erpingham in Henry V, King of France in All’s Well …
In this final, epic installment of Shakespeare’s Henriad trilogy, ASC veteran Brandon Carter leads “once more unto the breach” as King Henry V—one of the greatest monarchs in English history. Swashbuckling adventure and romance burst at the seams of this the most exciting of Shakespeare’s histories, which ends, as so many of the great stories do, in a wedding.
Richard III chronicles the cataclysmic end of England’s greatest power struggle, the Wars of the Roses. Richard is the play’s remarkable, charismatic, and repulsive ringmaster – he takes the audience into his confidence as he plots to kill everyone before him in line for the throne. Being seduced by Richard’s shameless treachery is one of theatre-going’s most delicious guilty pleasures.
Shakespeare's profound exploration of the meaning of human life, King Lear is both timeless and unnervingly contemporary. A penetrating family drama and powerful political commentary, Lear's relentless gaze at man's frailty and inhumanity conveys the necessity, sanctity, and strength of human love.