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You dont get many opportunities to see ShakespearesHenry IV Part 1, and still fewer to seePart 2.
Theres a Bardolphanda Lord Bardolph?
Help) but oh, what were all missing.
Perhaps, in fact, a little too solid.
Its a wild rush and its also, in context, wickedly funny.
These are the opportunities that thisHenry IVmisses.
It settles for characters of two or three shades when it could draw them in a multitude of colors.
The ensemble of 16, playing 40-odd characters, undoubtedly contains bright spots.
The second is Falstaffs.
And while these tones may pass through these women, neither gains her true fullness.
Can someone be both?
Henry IVis at Theatre for a New Audience through March 2.
