TSC Program Website

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In an effort to leave Mabry-Hazen clean and green, we are using digital programs! Scroll on down to find the stuff you'd normally see in our paper playbills.

There will be one 10 minute intermission.

Audience Bathrooms are available at the Guest House, located across the parking lot.

The Main House is not open to the public during performances. Check out Front of House to schedule a tour!

Cast list

Raine Palmer ................................................. King Richard the II

John Simmons ............................................ Henry Bolingbroke

Gray Casterline ........................................................Lord Aumerle

Helena Jordan .................................................. Queen/ Duchess

Greg Congleton ........................................................ Duke of York

Ethan Copeland ............... Lord Marshall/ Northumberland

Aaron Hinds ....................... Thomas Mowbray/Henry Percy

Kevin Collins ................... Duke of Gaunt/Bishop/Gardener

Caroline Whitaker .............................................. Lord Fitzwater

Natausha Bly ............................................................... Lord Surrey

Henry Lubke ............................. Green/Bagot/2nd Murderer

Kensey Johnson ...... Bushy/Gardener's Assistant/Keeper

Lillian Healy .................. Servant/Lady/Sir Scroop/Groom

Director........................................................................ Tom Parkhill

Stage Manager.................................................. H. Caitlin Corbitt

Asst. Director .......................................... Madison M. Mansouri

Fight Choreographer ........................................ Gray Casterline

Costumes....................................................................... Patti Rogers

Props ............................................................................ Natasuha Bly

Drums........................................................................... Tom Parkhill

Scene

Breakdown

Quick Breakdown, minimal spoilers

At the play's opening, we meet King Richard the II and his court.

Two Dukes have come before the king to make claims against one another. Duke Henry Bolingbroke claims that Duke Thomas Mowbray murdered The Duke of Gloucester, Richard and Henry's uncle. In deciding their fates, Richard banishes Mowbray for life, and banishes Henry for 6 years.

During Henry's banishment, Henry's dad, John, dies.

Richard, instead of bringing Henry back and giving him his land that he inherited, takes all of it to fund a (maybe frivolous) war in Ireland.

While he's gone, Henry comes back to get his revenge. People rebel, political rivals are murdered, it is anyone's guess who is stabbing who in the back. Richard and Henry are left asking: what makes a king?

Divine Right? or a Bigger Army....

Now, for the spoilers.

FAMILY TREE

EDWARD III

King of England 1327 - 1377