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.

Cast

David Collins

John of Gaunt

Jordin Hall

Henry Bolingbroke

Sarah Orenstein

Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland

Michael Spencer-Davis

Edmund, Duke of York

Sarah Dodd

Lady Scroop

Thomas Duplessie

Harry Percy

Charlie Gallant

Lord Willoughby

Matthew Kabwe

Lord Ross

Tyrone Savage

Thomas Mowbray