Review: Henry V by Velvet Rut Theatre

by Michael Meigs
Published on February 23, 2011

I like to think that Shakespeare as a hard-working actor and playwright would be entirely at home with the Austin Drama Club. He might object to abridgements of his text and he would be intrigued by the speakeasy atmosphere. But he would see actors and audiences breathing life into his pages.

Punk rock and garage bands give way in Austin, Texas, to speakeasy Shakespeare.  The Austin Drama Club was chased by the City from its rental house on East 7th Street, set up out in the brushwood hills last summer with the scorpions, tried doing Julius Caesar at a biker bar in south Austin, and now appears to have found shelter in a ramshackle former supermarket at William Cannon and Westgate.   The Community Renaissance Market is an ad …

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