Video Countdown To Richard II: David Tennant As Angelo From Measure For Measure

<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHVaOJ_-56L1YKQi_meX0jPkbZPOTkWy0dA_cpGMGLNNbVPaO76ZvGcNdvff15BOxHsqxa-ClyVan-AYH3V8IWoJcxmj1QOWjAfRpk7z75t_HT_-Le_7orb4Hz5nGtEzBTWsYoSnARAE/s1600/Angelo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHVaOJ_-56L1YKQi_meX0jPkbZPOTkWy0dA_cpGMGLNNbVPaO76ZvGcNdvff15BOxHsqxa-ClyVan-AYH3V8IWoJcxmj1QOWjAfRpk7z75t_HT_-Le_7orb4Hz5nGtEzBTWsYoSnARAE/s1600/Angelo.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Royal Shakespeare Company's production of <i>Richard II</i> starring David Tennant as the King opens in just four days time in <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place>. In the meantime we’re posting a daily Shakespearean video clip of David</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today’s clip comes from an Open University programme, <i>Conjuring Shakespeare,</i> which was shown on BBC Two in 1997. The clip features David Tennant and Catherine Cusack as Angelo and Isabella enacting a scene from <i>Measure For Measure </i>(Act II Scene iv)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The BFI database says of the programme:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Explores Shakespeare's play "Measure for Measure" and the questions it raises around morality and virginity against its setting of corruption, and particularly the moral dilemma facing the virtuous heroine - whether to sin and give up her virginity in order to save her brother's life. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6JpTAaLi_Q8" width="420"></iframe></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II will open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> on 10th October 2013 and will run until 16th November 2013. It will then transfer to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. The production is directed by Gregory Doran and stars David Tennant as King Richard and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play will be filmed and streamed live into <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> cinemas on Wednesday 13th November, and then into cinemas in locations worldwide in broadcasts running until February 2014. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more on the RSC Onscreen site</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep up to date with all the Richard II news on our website</span></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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