The campers circled up finishing the table work! 

Today’s date: 9th July, 2025

Show title: Henry VI, Part 3

Director: Mili Koncelik

Staff Crew: Production Interns Analise Toone (Stage Manager) and Madeleine Cook (Dramaturg); RDAs Sarah Clayton and Topher Zane (Asst. Directors)

What We Did

We picked up where we left off yesterday and did table work from 3.2 all the way through the end of the play! Just like yesterday, we went page by page, section by section, line by line, making sense of the dialogue and noting any interesting patterns, rhetoric, and other phenomena of language. We begin staging tomorrow, huzzah! 

Quick and Quotable

• From the play
  • “‘Tell him,’ quoth she, ‘My mourning weeds are done, / And I am ready to put armour on.’” – Post, quoting Margaret, 4.1.850-1
  • “Few men rightly temper with the stars.” – Warwick, 4.6.913
• From the director 
  • “One of the conventions of this play is that there’s just a bunch of people watching this all happen” – Mili 
  • “There’s always time for a York Bark” – Mili 
• From the cast 
  • “Thou art a yeoman, bro” – Sanchez 

Production Insights

Today was a day in which we got to focus a lot on foreshadowing and prophecy AND parallels to the past in the text – especially as the conflict intensifies and certain characters’ true motivations are revealed.  Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond makes a brief appearance, and King Henry VI refers to him as “England’s hope” and one who is fated to be a peaceful king. The curse that York bestows upon the Lancastrians at his death comes back to bite Margaret, and Margaret bestows a curse of her own on Edward that manifests in the next play in the tetralogy. It’s one of my favorite dramatic plot devices and what I’ve loved about working on a continuous set of plays that are all interconnected in terms of character and chronology, and watching the campers get excited about it as well is really cool.