NAATCO and The Public Theater team up for the encore Off-Broadway production of Henry VI: A Trilogy in Two Parts, adapter-director Stephen Brown-Fried’s whip-smart condensation of Shakespeare’s three-play history cycle into one weekend-friendly evening (or, technically, two — they’re played on alternating nights, Part 1 first if you’re being chronological).

Part 1: Foreign Wars kicks off with the funeral of Henry V — leaving his infant son on the throne, his uncles scrapping for control, and France slipping out of England’s grip courtesy of one Joan of Arc. Part 2: Civil Strife picks up thirty years later, when those festering domestic feuds explode into the Wars of the Roses. By the time it’s over, half the cast is wearing the crown and the other half is wearing a knife.

The all-Asian American ensemble — Mia Katigbak, Teresa Avia Lim, Jon Norman Schneider, Julyana Soelistyo, James Yaegashi, Rajesh Bose, and a deep bench of NAATCO regulars — return after the company’s 2018 Off-Broadway run earned heavyweight acclaim. Newman Theater on Lafayette Street, June 9 through July 19. Opening night June 21. Two nights, two parts, fifteen hours of plot crunched into something you can actually sit through.