Dee (David) Palmer's new Musical, "Hank Cinq" and Other News, Performances

Legendary ex-Tull member from the 70's Dee (David) Palmer has a new musical, "Hank Cinq" with a new twist on the Bard's "Henry V." Tickets (£7/£5 concession) are available for the show in Brighton May 26-29th at Palmer's Bar, 8 Queen Square. Expect other performances in UK this Fall. Details on the new musical are below.

Dee also has two scheduled performances for June:

• Pirate Jenny's - London on Tuesday, June 21st.
  
  
• Portland Rock Bar - Brighton, June 18th. Her debut "rock gig" - (with guitar, bass guitar, and drums supporting)
  

Hank Cinq

There’s no glorification of war here, though, and certainly not in the way Shakespeare presented the same historical facts to his Elizabethan audiences; that his principal characters come out to play again is both convenient and appropriate!

The songs - reflecting the spirit and humour of the times - comment upon and carry the action forward but the blatant, ruthless political scheming of the power seekers and brokers is always there - lurking, shark like, just below the surface - hiding behind the privilege of rank and authority and masked only by the thinnest veneer of propriety.

No change here, then, other than swapping chain mail and swords for Savile Row suits and mobile phones!

Any perceived notion of HenryVth as a romantic figure astride a white charger, exhorting his troops with an enviable flow of inspired rhetoric is best dismissed and forgotten: that’s mostly the product of Shakespeare’s creative gift, fertile imagination and his need to provide popular
entertainment.

Henry Vth isn’t and never was a romantic king. He was, simply, just a plain, old fashioned bully and thief!

Characters - in order of appearance

Prince Henry of Monmouth – King Henry Vth

Pistol
Nym (Rogues and friends of the Prince)
Bardolph

Nell Quickly (A brothel owner)
Duke of Exeter ( Henry’s uncle and adviser)
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Dauphin (Heir to the French throne)
Isabella Queen of France - his mother
Princess Katherine (Her daughter)

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