Richard II

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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139 minutes

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2024

Director:

Jillian Keiley

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Stratford Festival

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King Richard II

John of Gaunt

Henry Bolingbroke

Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland

Edmund, Duke of York

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