RICHARD II, the most lyrical and elegiac of Shakespeare’s history plays, is acted in Nicholas Hytner’s disappointing production in drab contemporary clothes on a traverse stage. I missed the poe ...
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Jillian Keily’s extraordinary production, which premiered in 2023, is far more interested in spectacle than poetry and medieval history. So, audiences, who want to see the play Shakespeare wrote about ...
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Ian McKellen first came to fame when he appeared in the West End, at the Piccadilly Theatre, in 1970 in a double-bill of Shakespeare’s Richard II and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, playing two homos ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews Richard II at Almeida Theatre, London N1 I think I can safely say that this is the worst Richard II I have seen. If you have neither seen nor read Shakespeare’s history play, I ...
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