Old Vic 2027 season to feature Damian Lewis in a ‘provocative’ Henry V and Milly Alcock as Miss Julie

Rupert Goold begins his tenure as artistic director with a version of Shakespeare’s history play, followed by shows starring Supergirl’s Alcock and Arinzé Kene Damian Lewis is to play Henry V at the Old Vic in London in the first production under the theatre’s new artistic director, Rupert Goold.

Goold will direct what is billed as a “provocative” version of Shakespeare’s history play that challenges “what makes a leader a legend”. It will be Lewis’s first major theatre role since he starred in…