Posing outside the Great Hall. Out of shot, some seniors from the Girls' Division giggled at me but I felt confident in the hired chainmail and the papier-mache helmet, stuffed with the Bolton Evening News to keep it secure. — Ian McKellen, December 2006
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HENRY V (1957)

Written by William Shakespeare

Directed by Frank Greene

Ian McKellen in the role of King Henry V

Bolton School

25 March 1957 - 30 March 1957

We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us.
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For we no longer are defensible
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Wilt thou have me?
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Principal Cast
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Erpingham (T I Hardy), Westmoreland (K A Bateson), York (Harold Kroto), Gower (E A Sharples), Warwick (R R May), King Henry (Ian McKellen), Burgundy (J R Munks), Constable (F D G Norburn), Dauphin (G A Farnworth)
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The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressd and killd
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