The Crooked Billets was formed in 2024 by actors Gareth David-Lloyd, Felix Uff and BAFTA nominated director Paul Olding. The company's first production was a short showcase run of 'After Agincourt' and 'Before Nell' as a double bill at The Tabard in West London which received an overwhelmingly positive response.

'After Agincourt' centres on Shakespeare’s braggart soldier, Pistol: bitter, drunk and alone in the Boar’s Head Tavern, seven years after the battle of Agincourt. In gritty modern vernacular, he suffers through a brutal recollection of the before, during and aftermath of the battles that took place at Harfleur and Agincourt in 1415. Simultaneously, he obliterates the familiar and heroic image of Henry V who– as the story goes–courageously rallied his troops to fame and glory.

Written by Peter Mottley