Word: agincourt
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...play and the troops is lowest. When one of Henry's brothers, Gloucester, speaks fearfully of the French, the king quietly says, "We are in God's hands, brother, not in theirs." Again, Grizzard is touchingly good as he comforts his tattered band on the eve of Agincourt with "a little touch of Harry in the night." On balance, however, he does not drive the play forward. He is hauled through it, rather like the cannon...
...over Britain, Langdon-Davies aims to visualize and dramatize "living history with its news sheets and battle plans, its surprises and disasters, presented in authentic detail." With his first kits a sellout, he plans new ones (possibly to be published in the U.S.) on everything from the Battle of Agincourt to the Boston Tea Party, from the Irish famine to the Battle of Britain...
There he stood, looking like King Hal at Agincourt, a slim figure in gold staring at the enemy over the backs of his crouching linemen. "Haaaay, set! Hup-ah-hup-ah-hup-ah . . ." Back snapped the ball, and the crowd sucked in its breath. What would he do? Now he was rolling right and fading back as if to pass. He slithered away from one tackier, straight-armed another. Downfield, three receivers zigged, zagged, looked back, zigged again. Back and forth he dodged, now trapped, now loose. But there was no pass. In a spurt of swivel-hipped speed...
...best in the night scene where he wanders among his soldiers in disguise before the Battle of Agincourt. The solo aria on "ceremony" he delivers with perfect understanding and golden musicality...
...British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell to America, joyous peasants stand waving in the courtyards of thatched cottages, little girls pelt the hero with flowers, Washington says...