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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
From11th July 2015
Opened22nd July 2015
To18th October 2015
When19:30. Sun 13:00, 18:30. Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat Mats 14:00
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (V165)
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Production Changes

Previous details associated with this item and date of change.
  • Date of change: 17 Jul 15 - T0137211597
  • Date of change: 2 Jun 15 - T0137211597
  • Date of change: 16 Apr 15 - T0137211597
  • Date of change: 21 Nov 14 - T0137211597

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:: (T0137211597)

Producer Shakespeare's Globe
Director Simon Godwin
Design Paul Wills
Music Stephen Warbeck
Performer Charles Edwards (Richard II)
Performer Sarah Woodward (Duchess of York)
Performer Graham Butler (Aumerie)
Performer William Gaunt (John of Gaunt)
Performer Oliver Boot
Performer Jonny Glynn
Performer Greg Haiste
Performer Angus Imrie
Performer Richard Katz
Performer Ekow Quartey
Performer Anneika Rose
Performer David Struzaker
Performer Arthur Wilson
Performer William Chubb
Performer Henry Everett

Listing:: L1365555002




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Special Performances


  • 23 Aug 15 Captioned
  • 27 Sep 15 Audio Described
  • 29 Sep 15 Sign Interpreted
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