LONDON/GREAT BRITAIN: Antony Sher as Sir John Falstaff with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Barbican Theatre in London are getting extraordinary good review in The International New York  Herald Tribune.

Antony Sher as Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV Part II. Photo by Kwame Lestrade.

It is their critic, Charles Isherwood  who enjoy mr
. Sher´s  performance, and he is writing:

“A lust for wine , women and mischief are the hallmarks of Falstaff, one of Shakespeare´s greates characters

. All these outsize appetites shine through Antony Sher´s marvelous performance of the role in the Royal Shakespeara. 

Company production of the two parts of “Henry IV” here at Barbican Theatre.

 But more than anything it is Falstaff´s relish for language – his unstemmed and unstemmed gift for elaborate prevarication, for colourful excoriation, for creative ingratiation – thet Mr. Sher  brings to buoyant life. In his ebullient interpretation, the fat knight seems to gain much of his girth to putting him self up with an endless stream og outlandish verbiage, He may guzzl ewine as if it´s water, but what really feeds the energies of Mr. Sher´s Falstaff are words, gloriouse words”

The cast of Henry IV Part II. Photo by Kwame Lestrade.

Mr Isherwood continues in his review:

“The voise is rich, roaring music: Mr. Sher does not let us forget that, despite his unsrupulosus behavior, Sir John Falstaff is a nobleman
. His accent is as plummy as that of the mosy pompouse sourtier, but the language is far from gentlemanly. Mr. Sher is never more deliciouse than when Falstaff is pouring forth streams of invective, whether he´s defending himself from acccusations of cowardice or accusing Prince Hal of same. Mr. Sher manages to make Shakespeare´s often arcane language sound as familar as the slang you´d hea on the streets today.”

And Mr Isherwood ends his review in New York Herald Tribune like this: 

“Above all teh production´s greatest asset is Mr

. Sher, whose final moments are as wrenching as his earlier ones boisterously funny. After being brutally snubbed by Hal, his forer benefator, Falstaff assures his friends that he is merely putting on a show for the public as the new kng, that he will soon resume his old intimacy. But Mr. Sher suggests, through the siftened tenor of Falstaff´s once-robust voice, that for all his bluster, the man only half-believes his own words.”

Royal Shakespeare Company – Henry IV, Parts I & II

directed by Gregory Doran

29 November 2014 – 24 January 2015 / 19:15, 13:30

Henry IV, Parts I & II is performed at the Barbican, following its premiere in Stratford-upon-Avon and subsequent UK tour.

RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran and the creative team that brought you the five star production of Richard II continue their exploration of Shakespeare’s History plays at the Barbican with Henry IV Parts I & II, an epic, comic and thrilling vision of a nation in turmoil.

RSC Associate Artist Antony Sher returns to the Company to play the infamous comic knight Falstaff. He is joined byJasper Britton as Henry IV, Alex Hassell as Prince Hal andPaola Dionisotti as Mistress Quickly. Jasper returns following his performances in The Taming of the Shrew/The Tamer Tamed (2003). Alex returns to the RSC following his recent credits in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cardenio and The City Madam (2011).