The king is a woman in the Crooked Figure Theatre production of William Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cHenry V\u201d on\u00a0June 17-19 at the Museum of Northern Arizona.<\/p>\n
\u201cHenry V\u201d is a play about a ruler attempting to make sense of what it means to rule, and what it means to conquer. This production is a dramatic workshop production reading created to explore the effects of casting a female Henry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis production is one of the first\u2013if not the first\u2013in the play’s 400-year history to feature a female actor playing a female King Henry,\u201d said Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy<\/strong>, director and theatre lecturer at Northern Arizona University. \u201cWe hope to produce a full version of the show next summer at a site-specific location.\u201d<\/p>\n Crooked Figure Theatre is made up of NAU students and faculty members who are interested in direct storytelling and site-specific, relevant productions of both classic and contemporary texts.<\/p>\n \u201cHenry V\u201d is Crooked Figure Theatre’s first production and takes place in the Museum of Northern Arizona courtyard that will be transformed into Henry’s court and battlefield.<\/p>\n The \u201cHenry V\u201d workshop production reading is 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 17 and 18, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at the Museum of Northern Arizona, 3101 N. Fort Valley Road in Flagstaff. The event is free and open to the public. For information, go to Henry V Presented by Crooked Figure Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"