HENRY IV
Henry IV was performed at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center at Theatre for a New Audience in January of 2025. Henry IV was an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I and Part II.
Adaptation: Dakin Matthews
Direction: Eric Tucker
Set Design: Jimmy Stubbs
Costume Design: Catherine Zuber & AC Gottlieb
Lighting Design: Nicole E. Lang
Sound Design and Composition: Jane Shaw
Fight Direction/Intimacy Coordination: Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum
Properties Supervisor: Jon Knust
Hair and Wig Design: Tom Watson
Voice Direction: Andrew Wade
Production Dramaturgy: Jonathan Kalb
Production Management: Brett Anders
Technical Direction: Joe Galan
Stage Management: Charlie Lovejoy
Cast: Dakin Matthews, Elijah Jones, Cara Ricketts, Jay O. Sanders, James Udom, William Bednar, Jordan Bellow, Steven Epp, Nigel Gore, Slate Holmgren, PJ Ju, John Keating, Owen Laheen, Michael Rogers, Sandra Shipley, Elan Zafir
Assistant Lighting Design: Matt Lazarus
Master Electrician: Michael Cahill
Light Board Programming: Paul Kennedy
Photos: Jimmy Stubbs and Nicole E. Lang
"Perhaps the most novel aspect...is how the relatively brief battle scenes effectively suggest boxing matches through the...smoky lighting created by Nicole E. Lang that sometimes goes blood-red when death results. Among other imaginative touches, the designer drapes strings of Christmas-type lights from the upper gallery of the auditorium to illuminate the scenes of festivity that fleetingly brighten the earnest nature of Shakespeare’s historical plays."
-NY STAGE REVIEW, MICHAEL SOMMERS
"The lighting design, by Nicole E. Lang,...[in which] the harsh overhead fluorescents in the early scenes give the production a distant, clinical feel."
-NEW YORK TIMES, MAYA PHILLIPS
"The lighting design by Nicole E. Lang, a new face, is unusually well-thought-out, including a warm wash (with colorful Christmas lights) for the tavern scenes, light bar chases during the battles, and a ceiling piece...that flies in to create a stark, noirish atmosphere."
-LIGHTING AND SOUND AMERICA, DAVID BARBOUR
"Nicole E. Lang’s aggressive lighting, which uses twinkling Christmas bulbs and bright fluorescent slabs, add[s] to the immersive feel"
-THE NEW YORK SUN, ELYSA GARDNER
"Nicole E. Lang’s lighting during a confrontation scene between King Henry and Hal is perfectly calibrated to give off a dingy underground aura."
-THEATERMANIA, KENJI FUJISHIMA
"Likewise, this production meets the eye humbly, no more than a small stage with two chairs. Then...it grows to encompass a murmuring woods, a raucous pub, and the rocky, sometimes treacherous terrain of personal ambition."
-THE NEW YORKER, DAN STAHL
