The hollow crown

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shakespeare and the Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center by arrangement with the Denver Centre for the Performing Arts and Paul Elliot & Duncan C. Weldon presents the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Roy Dotrice, Paul Hardwick, songs guitar and lute Martin Best in "The Hollow Crown," an entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England: music, poetry, speeches, letters, and other writings from the Chronicles, from plays in the monarch's own words, also music concerning them and by them, devised and directed by John Barton, designed by Anna Steiner.