Full Casting announced for Henry V at Noel Coward Theatre

Full casting for Michael Grandage’s Henry V starring Jude Law has today been announced, including Norman Bowman, Michael Hadley, Jessie Buckley and Prasanna Puwanarajah.

Henry V opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on 3rd December (with previews from 23rd November).
Shakespeare’s play of nationhood investigates the bloody horrors of war and the turbulence of a land in crisis.

Norman Bowman (Nym/Williams)’s theatre credits include Macbeth (MIF), Finding Neverland (Curve, Leicester), Mack and Mabel (Southwark Playhouse) and Twelfth Night (Donmar West End). His TV work includes Mr Eleven and Los Dos Bros.

Michael Hadley (Canterbury)’s stage credits include King Lear, Piaf, Othello (Donmar), The Tempest, Heroes (Watermill Theatre), Coriolanus and The Canterbury Tales (RSC). TV and film credits include Fair Cop, Mrs Biggs, The Invisible Woman and The Boat That Rocked.

Jessie Buckley (Princess Katharine) first came to public attention as runner-up on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s search for a Nancy I’d Do Anything. Her stage credits include The Tempest (Globe) and A Little Night Music (Menier/West End).

Prasanna Puwanarajah, who plays Mountjoy, theatre credits including Sixty Six Books (Bush), Emperor and Galilean, Hamlet, London Assurance (National) and Twelfth Night (RSC). For television, work includes Silk and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

The full cast also includes Harry Attwell (Grey/Gower), Jason Baughan (Bardolph/Bates M. Le Fer), Richard Clifford (Ely/King Charles VI), Ron Cook (Pistol), Ian Drysdale (Cambridge/Constable), Noma Dumezweni (Mistress Quickly/Alice), Edward Harrison (Westmoreland), Christopher Heyward (Macmorris/Orleans), James Laurenson (Exeter), Ben Lloyd-Hughes (Dauphin/Scroop), Matt Ryan (Fluellen) and Ashley Zhangazha (Chorus/Boy).

Friday 20th September 2013