Vancouver set designer uses recycled coffee sacks for immersive production of Henry V

A lost world; a timeless, placeless, abandoned space filled with intrigue, one where you might ask yourself, ‘Am I supposed to be here?’

That’s what audiences can expect when they wander into the burlap-draped set for Henry V, which runs at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver from now until Aug. 13. 

The long, billowing strips of burlap have both a history and a purpose: once destined for the recycling bin, they were rescued from a Vancouver-area coffee shop and given another life. 

That history is crucial to the eerie authenticity of the set, said Vancouver-based set designer Amir Ofek.

“It just immediately added a layer that I don’t think we would have achieved if

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