Richard II

Synopsis: Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of Michael Boyd’s 2007 production of Richard II with Jonathan Slinger in the title role.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2007
Duration: 180 (including interval)

History: The production ran at The Courtyard 16 August 2007-13 March 2008; at the Roundhouse, London 1st April - 25 May.
Reviews: Billington, Michael. The Guardian (18 August 2007). Billington writes: ‘What is the essence of Boyd’s style? For a start, a vertical method of staging so that characters make aerial descents like SAS commandos. Boyd also delights in ritual as much as realism, often using bodies in massed ranks. But, most crucially, he believes in the idea expressed by TS Eliot in Four Quartets, of "time future contained in time past." In Boyd’s vision the dead not only return to haunt the living but past actions determine the political future. While it is a deeply Shakespearean concept that gives visual coherence to the productions, it also sometimes overlays the differences between individual plays’.

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Jonathan Slinger	King Richard II
Hannah Barrie	Queen Isabel
Roger Watkins	John of Gaunt
Clive Wood	Bolingbroke
Katy Stephens	Duchess of Gloucester
Ann Ogbomo	Lady attending the Queen
Anthony Shuster	Green
Chuk Iwuji	Duke of Gloucester
Forbes Masson	Bagot
James Tucker	Duke of Aumerle
John Mackay	Thomas Mowbray
Keith Bartlett	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Lex Shrapnel	Harry Percy
Luke Neal	Vernon
Maureen Beattie	Duchess of York
Nicholas Asbury	Bushy
Nicholas Asbury	Abbot of Westminster
Richard Cordery	Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
Rob Carroll	Lord Ross
Sandy Neilson	Bishop of Carlisle

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