Richard II

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single camera, of Elias Perrig’s 2005 production of Richard II for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich. Sylvester Groth is Richard.
Language: German (Switzerland)
Country: Switzerland
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2005

History: Produced at the Schauspielhaus, Zurich, beginning 24 February 2005.
Textual information: Translated into German by Thomas Brasch. Dramaturg is Stephan Wetzel.
Reviews: Marti, Markus. Shakespeare Jahrbuch 142 (2006): 184-91 (in review-article).

`Perrig focussed on the weak, vacillating king, slimming down the confusing cast of characters and seeking, above all, to illuminate the psychology of the protagonists, whose political poker for the royal throne was cloaked in drizzle throughout’. Juergen Berger writing on the Goethe Institute website www.goethe.de (accessed 12/2007)

Sylvester Groth	King Richard II
Ursula Reiter	Queen Isabel
Siggi Schwientak	John of Gaunt
Sebastian Blomberg	Bolingbroke
Daniel Lommatzsch	Duke of Aumerle
Ludwig Boettger	Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
Raphael Clamer	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Sabine Orleans	Duchess of York

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