The Head That Wears a Crown – Alan Cumming 2013

Internationally acclaimed actor and Tony Award Winner, Alan Cumming performs Shakespeare’s most important and beloved Royal speeches including, “To be or not to be,” “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,” “Now is the winter of our discontent,” “O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,” and many more. These speeches from As You Like It, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry V, Henry VIII, King Lear, MacBeth, Richard II, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus and Twelfth Night,were personally chosen by Cumming. Michael Boyd, recent Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company explaimed, “Alan Cumming brings to Shakespeare the lyricism of a genuine singer, the sharp edge of a wicked comic, and the embodied intelligence of a major actor.” This is a must for any English student, drama student, actor and lover of Shakespeare, in other words, EVERYONE!