Coming this Summer!

Torchlight Shakespeare:Henry the Fifth
July 2 –August 18  2012
In Parks all across Ottawa!

War is Heck!

Henry the Fifth is a Boy meets Girl story with a slight twist. Part ‘Saving Private Ryan’and part ‘Before Sunrise’this tale of patriotism and romance finds the boy,struggling under the heavy mantle of recent ascension to the throne.  Excited to try his leadership skills he sets out to invade the girl’s country,based on a dubious claim to the throne.  He lays siege to a key logistical port, marches inland and against the odds manages to defeat a much larger force by deploying new military strategies and then he meets girl.

Presented by the graduating class of the Wm. Golding Academy  Shakespeare’s King Henry the Fifth a reflection on what it means to be  a monarch. This is an overreaching and  unflinching production  that  tackles all the tough questions:Why do we fight wars?
What qualities  make a good leader?
Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France?
And what are we going to do with all of these tennis balls?