The Washington Post, March 23rd, 2004
"I'm old, I'm old," Jack Falstaff declares wearily in "Henry IV Part 2," and it is the image of a besotted, discarded, dissipated Jack that haunts the second half of Shakespeare's story of the coming of age of Henry V. It also happens that in Falstaff's precipitous fall from grace veteran actor Ted van Griethuysen finds his footing, delivering a subtle accounting of a man who cannot fathom his own pitiable obsolescence. Falstaff is the dominant presence in Part 2 -- he gives what might have been a run-of-the-mill history pageant the stamp of tragedy -- and never more poignant than in a raucous...
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