Theater review: Guthrie’s excellent ‘History Plays’ offer the Bard in abundance

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Theater review: Guthrie’s excellent ‘History Plays’ offer the Bard in abundance

Saturday was a sunny spring day, but over a thousand of us from 26 states and two Canadian provinces spent it ensconced within the Guthrie Theater. There, we experienced one of North America’s destination theatrical events of the year: The official opening of the Guthrie’s “History Plays,” Shakespeare’s trilogy of tales about England’s monarchs between 1398 and 1420. Presented over 13 hours (almost 8½ of them in performance), it likely filled ev…