Amendt lauded by NYT for "Henry V"

Show: Henry V
Posted on Mar 02, 2009 at 5:59 p.m. by LeeH

The King, All Grown Up and Ready to Wage Battle
by Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

Unlike most Shakespeare plays, "Henry V" contains only one truly central character, the king himself. Fortunately, Matthew Amendt, who plays the role here, is a charismatic, skillful actor with a clarion baritone who gives the production a magnetic focus.

Handsome in a Tom Cruise kind of way, the square-jawed and youthful Mr. Amendt is a distinctly cool King Henry in whom a few traces of the former rebel - Prince Hal, the boon companion of Falstaff in the "Henry IV" plays - can be discerned.

Read the full review online at
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/theater/reviews/03henry.html?ref=theater

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