Details

Or by its full first quarto title of The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, containing his trecherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pittiful murder of his innocent nephews: his tyrannical usurpation: with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death. Of course, nowadays Richard is seen as much maligned but the image of the hunchback reciting "Now is the winter of our discontent" will remain with us for a long time. Essentially the plot sees Richard assuming the throne after Edward IV and disposing of all those with greater right. He is finally killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field after having pronounced that other great line "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" (shouldn't that be "An horse!"?).

Cast/Performers

Tom Anderson, Toby Dantzic, David Fielder, John Lloyd Fillingham, Bradley Freegard, Ian Gelder, Henry Goodman, Michael Hadley, Christopher Harvey, James Hayes, Shereen Ibrahim, John Killoran, John Lightbody, Andrew Macbean, Fergus O'Donnell, David Peart, Javone Prince, Aheila Reid, Lisa Stevenson, Rob Wynn

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Producer: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director(s): Sean Holmes, Terry King (fight)
Design: Anthony Lamble
Lighting: Tim Mitchell
Choreographer: Michael Ashcroft