shredsandpatches:costlyblood:shredsandpatches:Henry IV set design choices i like a lot: this.mood: m
shredsandpatches:costlyblood:shredsandpatches:Henry IV set design choices i like a lot: this.mood: modern day shit in medieval style mosaicApparently it looks like that in Part 1 and then in Part 2 (which doesn’t open until July) it’ll appear as a completed piece. Personally I would do it the other way round – show it as new and shiny in P1 and then crumbling in P2 – but I can see the argument for doing it this way, like by P2 Henry’s impending death means he’s being absorbed by The History Blob and passing out of being an active figure or whatever.More generally I would love to see more productions of the histories take a cue from the historical Richard II and make more of propagandistic imagery of the monarchs – in the universe of the productions, I mean, as well as visual references to the historical examples. (With Richard II in particular you see a lot of the latter – every actor who plays Richard does the Westminster portrait pose in a publicity photo, for instance, and I loved the visual quotations of the Wilton Diptych in the RSC production – but not enough of the latter. OSF didn’t really do it at all with Richard II last year, despite the modern setting.) -- source link