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Performance

VenueShakespeare's Globe Theatre
Also: Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Inigo Jones, Globe Education Centre Theatre (Park Street)
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From8th May 2003
To27th September 2003
WhenIn rep.
PricesFrom £5.00. To £29.00.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (V165)
Current/Future Listings
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Richard II

Richard II

Work:: Richard II (S4764)

At the age of only ten, Richard Plantagenet succeeded his father Edward III as King of England. It was 1377 and a time of great hardship following the Black Death, but Richard lived lavishly at home and, abroad, pursued an expensive and futile war with France. The taxes he imposed provoked the famous 'Peasants Revolt' of 1381 and his attempt to rule autocratically alienated both nobility and Parliament. Shakespeare's loosely historical but theatrically wonderful account of Richard's last days concentrates on his most fateful error - the exile of his cousin Henry Bullingbrook and the seizure of his Lancastrian estates. Bullingbrook would return to England, topple Richard and take the throne himself as Henry IV, setting the stage for the bloody 'Wars of the Roses' between York and Lancaster. The play's extraordinary beauty and simplicity, and its study of a man reduced from - as he saw it - divinely appointed King, to a mere mortal without role, freedom or friends, put it among the most moving of all Shakespeare's tragedies.
Author Shakespeare

Production:: (T12692249)

The Men's Company. All male production.
Company White's Company
Director Tim Carroll
Performer Mark Rylance (Richard II)
Performer Liam Brennan (Bolingbroke)
Performer Patrick Brennan (Bagot / Scroop / Welsh Captain / Second / Gardener)
Performer Michael Brown (Queen Isabel)
Performer Richard Glaves (Green)
Performer Gerald Kyd (Percy)
Performer John McEnery (Gaunt / Gardener)
Performer Terry McGinity (Mowbray)
Performer Chu Omambala (Aumerle)
Performer William Osbourne (Bishop of Carlisle / Duchess of Gloucester)
Performer Justin Shevlin (Bushy / Exton)
Performer Peter Shorey (Duchess of York)
Performer Bill Stewart (Duke of York)
Performer Patrick Toomey (Salisbury / Fitzwater)
Performer Albie Woodington (Northumberland)

Listing:: L0551641480




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The Men's Company. All male production.

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