SWEET HENRY V
Born to be King. Dying to be free.
This party boi trashbag is about to break history.
It’s 1413, witness the glow up as Sweet Henry V (it’s pronounced Vee, actually) transforms from playboy prince to the most famous warrior king in British history. All he has to do is defeat the douchebag, Prince of Wales, Owain Glyndwr.
Watch as the anointed King and rebel Prince go head-to-head in this hilarious and heart-rending new musical that shines a spotlight on the most human of struggles; the quest to find out who we are and where we belong.
This script in hand, concert performance unravels an epic romance saga between Henry V and O G. Featuring a live band with over thirty original numbers; including bangin’ medieval tunes like “A-Hole”, “Naked out Here” and “I’m Your Man”, that will make you want to lift your goblet in the air and dance like you just don’t care.
Imagine if Shakespeare’s History Plays donned their lippy and heels and were taken out for a night on the tiles. We’re talking Hamilton meets Braveheart meets Priscilla Queen of the Desert in this radical reinvention of history that’s pounding with camp Celtic vibes.
Directed by The Rep’s Artistic Director, Joe Murphy.
Venue
Presented by
Birmingham Rep
Written by
Seiriol Davies
Directed by
Joe Murphy
Price
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Age Guidance
16+
Please note, no under 5s will be allowed into the auditorium.
Content Advice
Please note this is a script-in-hand concert performance.
Please note this production contains strong language, adult themes and sexual references.
Cast
Will Jennings
Will trained at the Guildford School of Acting and also has a first-class Msci (hons) in Geology from University College London.
Theatre credits include: Les Miserables (Sondheim Theatre, West End); The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre, West End); Starter For Ten (Birmingham Rep and Bristol Old Vic); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hart House Theatre, Toronto); Grease (European tour); Shrek The Musical (UK Tour); Benidorm Live (UK Tour); Shantify! (Edinburgh Fringe); Avenue Q (Gatehouse Theatre, London); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway Theatre, Catford); The Night Pirates (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale (Royal College of Music); Cinderella (New Wimbledon Theatre); Dick Whittington (Salisbury Playhouse); Sleeping Beauty (Milton Keynes Theatre); Robin Hood (The Capitol, Horsham).
TV credits include: Quacks (BBC); Galbani Cheese (commercial); Taylors of Harrogate (commercial); Uswitch (commercial).
Will also voices Yellow, Purple and Magenta in Colourblocks (BBC), as well as multiple characters in Tim Rex in Space (Nickelodeon).
Matt Rawle
Theatre includes: Barnum (Watermill Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Wolsey Theatre); Anything Goes, Assassins (Sheffield Crucible – TMA Nomination); Cabaret (UK Tour/Savoy Theatre); Pippin (Chocolate Factory); Hair (Ljubljana Festival); The Three Muskateers (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Light In The Piazza (Leicester Curve); Zorro (Andrew Fell Ltd – Olivier and What’s on Stage Award Nominations); Aspects of Love (UK Tour); Baghdad Wedding (Soho Theatre); Les Miserables (West End); Evita (West End – What’s on Stage Nomination); South Pacific (Grange Park Opera); Camelot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Alice in Wonderland (Bristol Old Vic); Almost Like Being In Love (National Theatre Cabaret); Putting It Together (Chichester Festival Theatre); Hard Times (The Haymarket); Hello Again (Bridewell Theatre); The Go Between (The Pleasance, London); Treasure Island (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); Into The Woods (Donmar Warehouse); Martin Guerre, Miss Saigon (Cameron Mackintosh).
Television includes: Strike, Father Brown, Holby City, Doctors (BBC); Trust (FX Productions); Coming Up (Channel 4).
Seiriol Davies
Seiriol Davies [pronounced SAY-re-OLL] is an award-winning writer, composer, songwriter and performer from the deepest North of Wales. They make fabulous, ridiculous musicals that explode knotty questions in a storm of glitter. In 2022, Seiriol was named one of The Stage newspaper’s 25 people to shake up the theatre landscape in the next 25 years.
Their first musical, the fierce Edwardian chamber comedy “How to Win Against History” premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and became the best-reviewed show of the Fringe. It then had an extended sellout run at London’s Young Vic. For their role as Henry, Seiriol was nominated for a UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical.
Other work includes their follow-up, the cod-Greek Chorus farce “Milky Peaks”, (Theatr Clwyd, 2022) which was a cult favourite and saw Seiriol lauded as “the 21st Century’s post-modern Ivor Novello” (Wales Arts Review). “Betty: A Sort of Musical”, (Royal Exchange, 2022) about Betty Boothroyd, the legendary high-kicking former speaker of the House of Commons, co-written with Maxine Peake (and starring Seiriol and Maxine) was a smash hit and is currently being adapted into a sitcom.
Upcoming work include: “Babyface: The Fierce Wrestling Musical”, a bodyslamming gay wrestling musical (with real wrestling!) and “Charles Actual Dickens and the Death Ship of Gold”, a high-kicking Victorian romp (with real shipwrecks!).
Adrian Hansel
Adrian attended Redroofs Theatre School, followed by three years at London Studio Centre where he graduated with the Sheila O’Neil cup for Most Outstanding All-Rounder award.
Theatre Credits include: Military Wives the Musical (Theatre Royal, York); We Will Rock You (London Coliseum, West End); Guys and Dolls (Crucible, Sheffield); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Southwark Playhouse, London); Five Guys Named Moe (West End); world premiere of The Distance You Have Come (Cockpit Theatre and Apollo Theatre (WestEnd) London); Carmen Jones (Old Vic, West End]; Carousel (National Theatre, West End); Porgy and Bess (Royal Opera House, West End); FAME the Musical (West End); Starlight Express (West End); All You Need Is Love (Original London Cast, West End); Oh! What a Night (Australian Tour); Dancing in the Street (West End); Hairspray (Original London Cast, West End).
He was a lead male vocalist in Disney 100: In Concert (European Tour); Believe in Magic (European Tour ); Remembering Fred starring Strictly Come Dancing’s Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec (UK tour); A Christmas to Remember (UK Tour) and a guest singer on Michael Ball tours both in the UK and internationally.
Adrian played one of the Freedom Four in King the Musical in Concert (Hackney Empire).
Adrian has performed backing vocals for Adele, Josh Groban, Tony Hadley , Jason Donovan, and Anastacia, and toured the UK singing for the Broadway, multi-award winning Lea Salonga. Adrian has provided voiceover and singing vocals for TV commercials and films including Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns and various voices for the Cartoon Network animated TV show, The Amazing World Of Gumball
All Social platforms: @adrianhansel
Website: adrianhansel.com
Emily Ivana Hawkins
Training: Guildford School of Acting
Theatre credits include: Alice: Return To Wonderland (Sherman Theatre); Housemates (Hijinx/Sherman Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Sherman Theatre); O.G Prince of Wales (Sherman Theatre)
Concerts include: Soloist/Choir Member in West End Does Hollywood (Cadogan Hall)
Credits whilst training include: Florika in Hunchback of Notre Dame; Lula Buffington/Music Hall Singer in Violet; Dana in Soho Cinders: Penelope Pennywise in Urinetown.
Emmy Stonelake
Emmy was awarded the Laurence Olivier Bursary whilst studying actor-musicianship at Rose Bruford.
Theatre includes: Beauty and the Beast (Storyhouse); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe); OG Prince of Wales, A Christmas Carol (Sherman Theatre); Tell Me How It Ends (Liverpool Everyman); The Fair Maid of the West (RSC); Pride and Prejudice *Sort Of (UK Tour); Double Drop (Dirty Protest); Belly Up (Dirty Hare Productions/Turbine Theatre); Corn Gwlad (Cwmni Pluen); Merched Caerdydd/Cardiff Girls (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Welsh Tour); Dick Whittington (Theatr Clwyd); As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Squares); Sleeping Beauty (Theatr Clwyd); Much Ado About Nothing (Mercury Theatre Colchester); Beauty and the Beast (Liverpool Everyman); Run (Theatre Ad Infinitum); Urinetown The Musical (RBC/Stratford Circus).
Film and Television includes: Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC Three/Showtime); RSVP (Cwmni Da/S4C); Doctors (BBC); The Diplomat (BBC/Alibi); No Words for That (NFTS); LEASH (Footprint Films); Enid and Lucy (S4C); 35 Days/35 Diwrnod (S4C).
Rhys Taylor
Training: The London School Of Musical Theatre.
Theatre credits include: Theo and Space Diva in Eugenius (Turbine Theatre); Millennials (The Other Palace); Tray Sophisticay and Cover Hugo in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Debut UK Tour); Stand-by Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre); Stand-by Sarah and Mayor Pigeon in Dick Whittington (National Theatre); Fairy Fredbare in Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); Dwight and Roscoe in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Union); Greg in Now and Then (Above the Stag); Iolo Goch in O.G. Prince of Wales (Workshop) and Lorelei in Red Book (Workshop).
Television credits include: Photographer in Death Valley (BBC); Barbra Brith in Bad Education season 4 (BBC Three) and Lucas in Bad Education season 5 (BBC Three).
Radio credits include: Hari in The Garden Centre (BBC Radio 4).
Creative Team
Director
Joe Murphy
Joe Murphy
Writer
Seiriol Davies
Seiriol Davies
Seiriol Davies [pronounced SAY-re-OLL] is an award-winning writer, composer, songwriter and performer from the deepest North of Wales. They make fabulous, ridiculous musicals that explode knotty questions in a storm of glitter. In 2022, Seiriol was named one of The Stage newspaper’s 25 people to shake up the theatre landscape in the next 25 years.
Their first musical, the fierce Edwardian chamber comedy “How to Win Against History” premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and became the best-reviewed show of the Fringe. It then had an extended sellout run at London’s Young Vic. For their role as Henry, Seiriol was nominated for a UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Musical.
Other work includes their follow-up, the cod-Greek Chorus farce “Milky Peaks”, (Theatr Clwyd, 2022) which was a cult favourite and saw Seiriol lauded as “the 21st Century’s post-modern Ivor Novello” (Wales Arts Review). “Betty: A Sort of Musical”, (Royal Exchange, 2022) about Betty Boothroyd, the legendary high-kicking former speaker of the House of Commons, co-written with Maxine Peake (and starring Seiriol and Maxine) was a smash hit and is currently being adapted into a sitcom.
Upcoming work include: “Babyface: The Fierce Wrestling Musical”, a bodyslamming gay wrestling musical (with real wrestling!) and “Charles Actual Dickens and the Death Ship of Gold”, a high-kicking Victorian romp (with real shipwrecks!).
Musical Director
Leo Munby
Leo Munby
Associate Musical Director
Livi Van Warmelo
Livi Van Warmelo
Keyboard Programmer
Lucy Baker-Swinburn
Lucy Baker-Swinburn
Drums
Dan Hayward
Dan Hayward
Sound No 1
Clive Meldrum
Clive Meldrum
Previously at The Rep: Good For a Girl; Community; Love & Rebellion Festival; Order & Chaos Festival; Parklife; Uncommon Riches Festival; GrimeBoy; The Play What I Wrote; Sky Comedy Rep; Constructed; Blue/Orange; Stuff; Elephant; I Knew You; To Sir With Love; The Quiet House; The Rotters’ Club; Folk; Unknown Male; The Mother; Tweet Tweet; Respect; Cling To Me Like Ivy; Last Easter; How To Tell The Monsters From The Misfits; Bulletproof Soul; Looking For Yoghurt and Hopelessly Devoted.
Other theatre credits include: Bright Places (Carbon Theatre); Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan the Musical (BOA Group); Shrive, Faustus: That Damned Woman, Bad Roads, Serious Money, The Trojan Women, The Penolopiad, The Learning Lottery, How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, Byrthrite, Animal Farm, The Red Vial and The Visit (University of Birmingham).
As Associate Sound Designer: Counting & Cracking – UK tour (Belvoir), Family Tree – UK tour (Actors Touring Company), Rebel Music – (Middle Child Theatre/Birmingham Rep)
Audio work: Chase Tales Trail – Cannock Chase Heritage Trail audio walk (Cannock Chase Council & Birmingham Rep)
Clive is also a visiting lecturer at University of Birmingham and BOA Stage & Screen.
Company Stage Manager