When you get to the end of the story, where do you go? The beginning!

At the end of Henry VI, Part 3, Henry was dead and Richard III was ascendant. Now Shakespeare gives us a Star Wars-style prequel. One question remains: Is this play as good as the Star Wars prequels?

Join us for a war story of derring-do, Joan of Arc, and French villains with all the menace of Team Rocket.

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