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

Jonjo O'Neill, Pippa Nixon, Paola Dionisotti, Siobhan Redmond, Neil Barry, Iain Batchelor, Simon Coombs, Sandra Duncan, David Fielder, Mark Holgate, Mark Jax, Joshua Jenkins, Edmund Kingsley, Jim Kitson, Natalie Klamar, Oscar Pearce, John Stahl, Susie Trayling, Alex Waldmann

Creatives/Company

Author: Shakespeare
Company: Royal Shakespear Company
Director: Roxana Silbert
Design: Ti Green
Lighting: Rick Fisher
Sound: Nick Powell