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Richard II

Tour synopsis, cast & creatives

Richard II
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.

Cast/Performers

Jonathan Bailey

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Director(s): Nick Hytner, Lily Dyble (Associate Director), Robert Sterne (Casting Director)
Design: Bob Crowley
Lighting: Bruno Poet
 

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Production details for Richard II

This production is on at one venue in Inner London.

Dates for Richard II (Play) tour


Mon, 10th February 2025 to Sat, 10th May 2025
  Bridge Theatre, Inner London» - 6 suppliers available
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