The Washington Post, September 25th, 1996
All the sharks have pretty teeth in the production of "Henry VI" that opened last night at the Shakespeare Theatre. The heroic Henry V, whom Shakespeare Theatre audiences may remember from Michael Kahn's stunning production last season, is dead. The resulting power vacuum sucks a variety of characters to their doom and the country into the 15th-century civil conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. The only character without a feral grin is Henry VI himself (Philip Goodwin), who has the misfortune to be the one decent man in this nest of bloodthirsty goblins. Goodwin gives a performance of fie...
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