Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach festival draws huge crowds every summer. Fight Director Nick Harrison is part of that appeal, providing exciting fight scenes for their productions year after year.
One such example from the 2010 repertoire is Falstaff, the merging of the Henry IV plays. The Vancouver Sun’s Peter Birnie shows appreciation for Nick’s contributions:
Leyshon’s a little guilty of gilding the lily in her direction of Falstaff, often choosing to create staged chaos as a way to drive the action. There’s no faulting her fight scenes, however, and fight director Nicholas Harrison gets a ringing endorsement for the realism he brings to both a big battle scene and the final fatal encounter between Hal and Hotspur.
Bard on the Beach: Bold experiment with Falstaff hits the mark
