Details

Broadcasts directly from the National Theatre, Royal Opera House and other famous theatres around the world onto a big screen. Broadcasts may be of live performances or "Encore" screenings of previous famous productions recorded "as live". <hr> For some screenings from live venues, check ticket link for actual performance. Richard is King, ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

Cast/Performers

David Tennant (Richard II), Oliver Ford Davies (Duke of York), Nigel Lindsay (Bolingbrook), Michael Pennington (John of Gaunt)

Creatives/Company

Company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Gregory Doran
Design: Stephen Brimson Lewis
Lighting: Tim Mitchell
Music: Paul Englishby