History is a theme running through the autumn at Southampton's Berry Theatre, with two plays in its Road to Agincourt project.
Neil Duffield has written The Road to Glory, the first of the two. Combining fact and fantasy, it takes the audience from rural England to the bloodshed of the battle of Agincourt itself following a group of young villagers who enlist in King Henry V’s army to claim the throne of France for England.
The second play sees year 9 students from schools across Hampshire in a reworking of Shakespeare’s King Henry V.
Amongst the comedy coming up is a high-speed journey through Charles Dickens’s greatest hits in Adam Long’s Dickens Abridged, Sean Hughes's new show Mumbo Jumbo and Robert Newman in Robert Newman: The Brain Show.
For younger audiences, there is Emma Reeves’s Snow Child and Christmas show Little Red Riding Hood written by Mike Kenny, promising special pies, smelly fur coats and doughnuts.
The new programme also includes a a Q & A session with Neil Duffield hosted by the play’s director Daniel Hill and screenings of two National Theatre plays, Coriolanus and Hamlet.