#bardolph

I found this buried in my drafts, and I’m so sorry for missing it!

Sweet Barry doesn’t have a knack yet, because I haven’t managed to come up with one. He’s so far managed to survive through sheer force of will. He might look small and fragile, but he’s got a strong spirit, and doesn’t ever give up when others might want to. In fact, his spirit is what helps keep Xander going, at times.

Prince Hal: i honestly cannot articulate why he’s great he just is

Poins: seems like a cool dude for a thief

Sir Walter Blunt: just doing his job and SHOULD NOT HAVE DIED i am still mad about that

Glendower: has some pretty high ideas about himself but overall i don’t think there’s much to hate about him personally

Hotspur: not a great person (and some serious anger issues there) but damn if he doesn’t stick it to the man

Kate: points just for putting up with Hotspur (and for being a kickass lady)

Mortimer: he’s just a hopeless romantic let him be

Falstaff: annoying but has some good things to say about war

Peto, Bardolph, and Gadshill: pretty chill guys but not super important

Northumberland: i bet he wasn’t even sick

King Henry IV: the more i read of this play the more i don’t like him, seems kinda fishy to me what with the whole probably-killed-the-last-king-and-took-over-the-throne and everything

Douglas: how did he even get involved in all this is the real question

Derbhle Crotty as Bolingbroke/Henry IV/Montjoy  Aisling O’Sullivan as Prince Hal/Henry V  Clare Barrett as Bardolph/Gardener/Keeper  Karen McCartney as Scroop/Prince John/Boy/Bates/Salisbury Charlotte McCurry as Blunt/Peto/Clarence/Nym/Monsieur le Fer Marie Mullen as Northumberland/Lord Chief Justice/Silence/Exeter

DruidShakespeare (Richard II, 1 & 2 Henry IV, and Henry V), adapted by Mark O’Rowe and directed by Garry Hynes (2015)

Druid, Galway, Ireland and the Lincoln Center Festival, NYC

Photos by Matthew Thompson

bardolph’s execution

hal responding to falstaff’s banish all the world line with “i do. i will.”

viola’s awkward “...of your complexion” and “...about your years, my lord.”

“do you love me, master?”

“and, when the tale is told, bid her be judge whether bassanio had not once a love”

“there’s for you, patroclus”

Aw, if only!

Poor little Barry does not have any advanced healing, and he’s going to go through a lot more before we see him next. There’s been a lot of dumb luck for him, and Garen’s convinced he won’t last long, while Xander is determined to get him through it.

Those three might eventually get knacks, but they were designed before I had any knacks for non-main characters in mind, so they’re currently ‘unknown’.

I still wonder if Captives will end up being story 20 like I thought… there’s been some restructuring of the story since then. Oh well, we’ll find out once the other stories are completed!

Stan’s knack is not animal empathy (he would… love that). He’s one of the characters with a hidden, unrevealed knack. Unless someone is lucky enough to guess what his special is!