Richard II

Release Date: 2024-01-27

Overview: 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.

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Cast

Stephen Jackman-Torkoff

as King Richard II

David Collins

as John of Gaunt

Jordin Hall

as Henry Bolingbroke

Sarah Orenstein

as Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland

Michael Spencer-Davis

as Edmund, Duke of York