RSC Live: Richard II (2013)

7.4/10 • 180 min • Drama History

Overview

A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

Cast

David Tennant

Richard II

Nigel Lindsay

Henry Bolingbroke

Michael Pennington

John of Gaunt

Oliver Ford Davies

Duke of York

Antony Byrne

Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk

Emma Hamilton

The Queen

Oliver Rix

Duke of Aumerle

Sean Chapman

Earl of Northumberland

Jim Hooper

Bishop of Carlisle

Jane Lapotaire

Duchess of Gloucester

Sam Marks

Bushy

Marcus Griffiths

Green

Edmund Wiseman

Harry Percy

Youssef Kerkour

Lord Willoughby

Marty Cruikshank

Duchess of York

Elliot Barnes-Worrell

Groom

Joshua Richards

Lord Ross / Gardener

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