Richard II (2024)
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.
- Released
- 2024-01-27
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jillian Keiley
Cast
- Stephen Jackman-Torkoff as King Richard II
- David Collins as John of Gaunt
- Jordin Hall as Henry Bolingbroke
- Sarah Orenstein as Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland
- Michael Spencer-Davis as Edmund, Duke of York
- Emilio Vieira as Duke of Aumerle
- Sarah Dodd as Lady Scroop
- Thomas Duplessie as Harry Percy
- Charlie Gallant as Lord Willoughby
- Matthew Kabwe as Lord Ross
- Marcus Nance as Abbot of Westminster
- Debbie Patterson as Duchess of York