Performance

Venue	Courtyard Theatre
Town	Stratford-Upon-Avon
County	Warwickshire
From	7th July 2007
To	13th March 2008
When	Jul 7, 9, 10, 11, 28, 30, Aug 7, 8, 13, Nov 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, Dec 4, 19, 28, Jan08 1, 4, 16, 21, 31, Feb08 27, Mar 08 13 at 19:30. Aug 9, 16, Mar08 at 10:30
Prices	From £5.00. To £30.00.
Courtyard Theatre (V643776775)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

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:: (T01565666663)

RSC 'The Histories' Company

Company	Royal Shakespeare Company
Director	Michael Boyd
Design	Tom Piper
Lighting	Heather Carson
Music	James Jones
Music	John Woolf
Director	Liz Ranken (movement)
Sound	Andrea J. Cox
Director	Terry King (fights)
Director	Matt Costain (director or rope work)
Director	Donnacadh O'Braian
Performer	Nicholas Asbury
Performer	Hannah Barrie
Performer	Keith Bartlett
Performer	Antony Bunsee
Performer	Rob Carroll
Performer	Richard Cordery
Performer	Matt Costain
Performer	Julius D'Silva
Performer	Keith Dunphy
Performer	Wela Frasier
Performer	Geoffrey Freshwater
Performer	Paul Hamilton
Performer	Alexia Healy
Performer	Kieran Hill
Performer	Tom Hodgkins
Performer	Chuk Iwuji
Performer	John Mackay
Performer	Forbes Masson
Performer	Chris McGill
Performer	Patrice Naiambana
Performer	Luke Neal
Performer	Sandy Neilson
Performer	Ann Ogbomo
Performer	Miles Richardson
Performer	Lex Shrapnel
Performer	Anthony Shuster
Performer	Jonathan Slinger
Performer	Katy Stephens
Performer	Geoffrey Streatfeild
Performer	James Tucker
Performer	David Warner
Performer	Roger Watkins
Performer	Clive Wood

Listing:: L1192203256

Current production:Work

Production details

RSC 'The Histories' Company

Reviews

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Special Performances

13 Nov 07 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)
21 Nov 07 Audio Described
27 Feb 08 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)
27 Feb 08 Audio Described

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