Creative Insight: Director's Note

Often referred to as Richard II, the play's full title is 'The Tragedy of King Richard The Second' and it is - It's also a tell-tale about a country divided, hard-core partisan politics drenched in ancient sacred blood-lines, and a leader unfit to rule. Contained within it's narrative, for example, is some of the most unbridled invectives spoken by rivals of equal status face-to-face ever written - it's raw, it's rough, its riveting scene work and a dream for actors to play.
 
Additionally, the play contains perhaps (arguably) one of the most glorious 'mirror up to nature' soliloquy ever to be written, stripping the thoughts of a King, fallen from grace, to the backbone of his being. The stakes are as high as can be: a country, it's throne, it's people and it's Crown.
 
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