At our final installment of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for Henry VI, Part 3, in Original Practice, complete with little red and white flags for the audience to cheer Lancaster vs York.
Same Henry, Another Part
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At our final installment of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for Henry VI, Part 3, in Original Practice, complete with little red and white flags for the audience to cheer Lancaster vs York.
I have fond childhood memories of Shakespeare at that theater.
It was a great play, better for being one I'd never seen before.
+Stan Pedzick Some great speeches in there (Henry VI and Warwick's both), not to mention a faboo woman's role.
It does get a little ping-pongy in which side is on top, which side just won a battle, which side is being betrayed, which side is committing atrocities … but that's kind of the point of the play, the destruction wrought by division, the unworthiness of either party to lead, and their bloody conflict leaving the door open to future skulduggery by malign forces.
Heck, there might even be applicability there to modern affairs.
If your good, you can spot Margie's arm waving a red flag, and the back of me and Dave's heads.https://plus.google.com/photos/…
"YORK FOR KING! YORK FOR KING!"
We won, right? Um … right?
+Dave Hill If we were playing Kingmaker, that might be a victory condition…except…Margaret is still alive.
So if I remember correctly, the game keeps going until all claimants to the throne have been eliminated.
…and because I was curious; it appears that used copies are for sale on Amazon for $60.
+Stan Pedzick I also tend to recall that was a multi-hour game, and I tend to play those (on Game Day, at least) only by accident / when the box says "Lasts only 60 minutes" …
+Dave Hill ha!
Hey everyone, let's play Scarborough Fair and Junta!
+Stan Pedzick Puerto Rico!
Part that Shakespeare left out – Margaret ended
up running things in the country because Henry VI had repeated bouts of mental health issues. So he wasn't just a pacifist who likes to read a lot of scripture.