A fast-paced staging of Shakespeare’s early history plays, packed with battles, intrigue, and dark humor.
Atlas Shakespeare Company presents a new staging that combines the first two parts of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy into a single production. Rarely performed in full, these early history plays trace the political unrest and violent power struggles that marked the beginning of the Wars of the Roses.
This adaptation features medieval costumes, live sword fighting, and dramatizations of key historical and fictionalized moments—including Joan of Arc’s rise and fall, courtly conspiracies, pirate attacks, demonic rituals, and scenes of battlefield brutality.