ITA Live: Kings of War

Release Date: 2021-01-22

Overview: In Kings of War, director Ivo van Hove focuses on political leadership. The original texts were retranslated by Rob Klinkenberg and then thoroughly adapted: the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Rose Wars between the houses of Lancaster and York for the English throne, which are emphatically present as a historical context in the original pieces, were referred to the background in the adaptation in order to accommodate a varied portrait of successive kings. As leaders in times of political instability and war, they show remarkable affinities with world leaders today.

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Cast

Ramsey Nasr

as Henry V, Richmond

Eelco Smits

as Grey, Henry VI

Hans Kesting

as Richard III

Hugo Koolschijn

as Charles VI, Warwick, Stanley

Aus Greidanus Jr.

as Gloucester, Buckingham