A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

• Royal Shakespeare Company
• David Tennant
• Nigel Lindsay
• Michael Pennington
• Oliver Ford Davies
• Antony Byrne
• Emma Hamilton
• Oliver Rix
• Sean Chapman