About
In a revolutionary adaptation by Brad Fraser, this Richard is the story of a king who believes that God gives him the right to live above the rules and who ultimately suffers the consequences. The story is embedded in a time of great freedom that is soon crushed - the late 1970s and early '80s: when lives were lived at great volume against a suffocating strain of conservatism and fear. Fraser's adaptation maintains Shakespeare's text but draws on sources beyond Richard II.
Director
Jillian Keiley
Studio
Stratford Festival
Cast
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David Collins
John of Gaunt
J
Jordin Hall
Henry Bolingbroke
S
Sarah Orenstein
Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland
M
Michael Spencer-Davis
Edmund, Duke of York
E
Emilio Vieira
Duke of Aumerle
S
Sarah Dodd
Lady Scroop
T
Thomas Duplessie
Harry Percy
C
Charlie Gallant
Lord Willoughby
M
Matthew Kabwe
Lord Ross
M
Marcus Nance
Abbot of Westminster
A
Andrew Robinson
Sir John Bushy
T
Tyrone Savage
Thomas Mowbray
J
John Wamsley
Sir Justin Green