Performance

VenueBarbican Centre
Other spaces: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From7th January 2016
To10th January 2016
WhenThu-Sat 19:15. Sat Mat 13:30. Sun Mat 14:00
What is currently on at Barbican Centre (V371)

Richard II

Richard IIT125316850
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


Archive :: production:T125316850, play:S4764, venue:V371

Production details

Part of the King and Country Cycle

Special Performances


  • 9 Jan 16 Audio Described
  • 9 Jan 16 Captioned

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Company

Company Royal Shakespeare Company
Director Gregory Doran
Design Stephen Brimson Lewis
Lighting Tim Mitchell
Music Paul Englishby
Sound Martin Slavin
Director Mike Ashcroft (movement)
Director Terry King (flights)
Performer David Tennant (Richard II)
Performer Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Groom)
Performer Antony Byrne (Mowbray)
Performer Sean Chapman (Northumberland)
Performer Marty Cruickshank (Duchess of York)
Performer Gracy Goldman (Lady-in-Waiting)
Performer Marcus Griffiths (Greene)
Performer Emma Hamilton (The Queen)
Performer Jim Hooper (Bishop of Carlisle)
Performer Youssef Kerkour (Willoughby)
Performer Jane Lapotaire (Duchess of Gloucester)
Performer Nigel Lindsay (Bolingbroke)
Performer Jake Mann (Bagot)
Performer Sam Marks (Bushy)
Performer Miranda Nolan (Lady-in-Waiting)
Performer Keith Osborn (Scroop)
Performer Michael Pennington (John of Gaunt)
Performer Joshua Richards (Ross / Lord Marshall)
Performer Oliver Rix (Aumerle)
Performer Simon Thorp (Salisbury)
Performer Edmund Wiseman (Harry Percy)
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