Patrick Page, Victor Garber, et al. Set for HENRY IV Reading; Jack O'Brien to Direct

On Monday January 9, Red Bull Theatre will hold a staged reading of PIRANDELLO'S HENRY IV, a new version of the classic play written by Tom Stoppard. Jack O'Brien will direct the reading, which will feature the talents of: Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, John Elison Conlee, Victor Garber, Darren Goldstein, Mamie Gummer, Aaron Krohn, Patrick Page, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Benjamin Walker, and Paxton Whitehead.

The reading will take place at The Mainstage Theater, (416 West 42nd Street) at 7:30pm.

Henry IV is a study on madness with comic and tragic sides, it has been translated into English by Tom Stoppard and others. Its titular character is a man who believes himself to be Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. Rex Harrison starred in a noted British production which went to Broadway in 1973, but the Stoppard translation was not used in the production.

A talented actor and historian falls off his horse in a historical pageant while playing the role of Henry IV. When he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. For the next twenty years his nephew, Count de Nolli, funds an elaborate hoax in a remote villa, where actors play the roles of Henry's privy councillors and simulate the 11th century court. On request from his dying mother, de Nolli brings a Doctor referred to as the latest in a succession to try to cure Henry (whose real name, if it is not Henry, is never mentioned). All the action of the play occurs in this one day of the visit.

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