Henry IV

An Italian nobleman falls from his horse during a pageant. When he comes round, he believes he''s the medieval German emperor, King Henry IV. For twenty years he lives this illusion but today a plot is being hatched to shock him out of this ''madness'' and into the twenty-first century.

Pirandello''s Henry IV, in Tom Stoppard''s new version, premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in May 2004.