New Staging of ‘Henry IV’ at Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience Offers an Immersive Experience With Some of the Bard’s Great Characters
The comedic star of ‘Henry IV’ is Falstaff, and Jay O. Sanders, a character actor who has been delighting New York audiences for nearly 50 years, could not be better suited to the part, either physically or in the girth of his talent.
Imagine sitting so close to one of Shakespeare’s most colorful and beloved characters, Sir John Falstaff, that you can hear his labored breathing. That’s the lucky position I found myself in at a recent preview of a new staging of “Henry IV,” featuring an adaptation by an actor, director, and playwright, Dakin Matthews.
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