VIDEO: Richard II - Production Diary 9

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPuiso_GPOzo_aIS5DyO2nXo_gtnjq4LOxNd40dx8wX3-twALB2_dExEYTyZiHDiQgPJ3hbKNwYhFJcGnxNmDz8I818spuKQ1bI9B3DI4Uw972DD29knRH7yvsh-NxMsDR4a0hy3Kt8w/s1600/rich18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPuiso_GPOzo_aIS5DyO2nXo_gtnjq4LOxNd40dx8wX3-twALB2_dExEYTyZiHDiQgPJ3hbKNwYhFJcGnxNmDz8I818spuKQ1bI9B3DI4Uw972DD29knRH7yvsh-NxMsDR4a0hy3Kt8w/s640/rich18.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week's Richard II production diary video focuses on what goes on behind the scenes in the build up to one of the previews.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keith Osborn, who plays Sir Stephen Scroop, meets us at the stage door and takes us into the dressing rooms for pre-show preparations.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Kitto, the duty manager, greets us front of house as the team prepare to welcome the public.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The doors open and theatre-goers arrive. Backstage, Klare Roger from the stage management team begins the count down to curtain up with a thirty minute call ...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II plays in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 10 October to 16 November 2013. It transfers to the Barbican 9 December to 25 January.</span><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/uUfuIw8MrFw?rel=0" width="640"></iframe>

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This week's Richard II production diary video focuses on what goes on behind the scenes in the build up to one of the previews. Keith Os...

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David Tennant And Richard II Cast Collect For Actors' Charity

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z_032yIJ3KL0Sw77Q-Q6zC25Xd7gb5lfTGWEC22psOd8F_GTaK_uE35T-Yj9wMx2HkQTL4_5cYMagWG0NP7wA9F_gF8NC9ylzF8SRZuUBbS0C1_Yl592Bl698xRfzf6MaFvr09PedRYw/s1600/RII-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3z_032yIJ3KL0Sw77Q-Q6zC25Xd7gb5lfTGWEC22psOd8F_GTaK_uE35T-Yj9wMx2HkQTL4_5cYMagWG0NP7wA9F_gF8NC9ylzF8SRZuUBbS0C1_Yl592Bl698xRfzf6MaFvr09PedRYw/s1600/RII-02.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;">David Tennant and his fellow cast members from <i>Richard II</i> followed the matinee performance yesterday with a collection in aid of the actors' charity Acting For Others. David made a speech from the stage at the end of the performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, then he and the other cast stood at the exit doors with collection buckets.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acting for Others benefits those in the entertainment industry who may be  ill, injured or elderly and who can no longer work and now find themselves in need. It is made up of 15 individual theatrical charities – each with their own remit. Between them they offer financial and emotional assistance and support to those in the entertainment profession who have fallen on hard times. The member charities dispense over £2 million to hundreds of people within the profession every year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For every successful performer, there are hundreds of actors, dancers, musicians, lighting technicians, scene painters, wardrobe staff, front of house, backstage staff who are not so fortunate. They may be suffering from illness, injury, be caring for a child with special needs, or have reached an age when they simply can no longer work to support themselves or make ends meet. </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;"><a href="http://actingforothers.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more about the charity and donate here</span></a></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;"><i>Richard II </i>starring David Tennant and directed by Gregory Doran will play in residence in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November 2013 when it will then transfer to The Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>.<br /><br />The run is completely sold out, but there may be returns. You can check for returns by phoning the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read more about Richard II on our website</span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />

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RSC Whispers From The Wings Blog: 'Time To Pinch Myself'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTWVRICVdoyCR1WUqqQNL9NcjYiePO0C9RJFhJykQwp5MUhlVZCoqgD3WRor3cnQ1WXLlOeKUoqkLUhYbkn0Bj7Wdv5vzVFjBUtjFNW2KgCJGLbPZ-8AKZQBpBQDT8FB0NEZ9mClqJTcf/s1600/Rich05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUTWVRICVdoyCR1WUqqQNL9NcjYiePO0C9RJFhJykQwp5MUhlVZCoqgD3WRor3cnQ1WXLlOeKUoqkLUhYbkn0Bj7Wdv5vzVFjBUtjFNW2KgCJGLbPZ-8AKZQBpBQDT8FB0NEZ9mClqJTcf/s640/Rich05.jpg" width="640" /></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;">Elliot Barnes-Worrell, who plays the groom in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of <i>Richard II,</i> has been blogging about the experiences of his debut season with the company. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Richard II </i>starring David Tennant and directed by Gregory Doran opened last week to much critical acclaim. For Elliot the whole experience has felt somewhat unreal. He says:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the last week I have packed up the young boy from south east <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I moved him to a little flat in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Stratford</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I 'teched' our show from 10am to 10pm.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I walked out on to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage in front of more than 1000 people, making my debut with the RSC.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I danced a hole in my socks at the press night party, and high fived Oliver Ford Davies backstage….<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would have pinched myself to make sure every awesome thing I had experienced this week was indeed real, but I assure you there has been little time for pinching.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/blogs/whispers-from-the-wings/time-to-pinch-myself/"><span style="color: blue;">Read Elliot's full blog post here</span></a></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;">Richard II will play in residence in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November 2013 when it will then transfer to The Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>.<br /><br />The run is completely sold out, but there may be returns. You can check for returns by phoning the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play will be streamed live into cinemas in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> on the 13th November and subsequently into cinemas worldwide</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about the live broadcast of Richard II here</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read more about Richard II on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div>

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New Illuminations Richard II Blog Post: 'Music Do I Hear?'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZOX7_NTBe6LpXkLXP-m1ZF5RNLI_iVEBDLWQGYXamFKmOfYKWmt8GIxItv2L6g1BaYazJN7gnzZp-aLTF6PdPNVgoP28pydjCmCcojPVZlL9aAbRvtAUm-5MM3s3HZvVEb8I_BYtPhK_/s1600/Rich10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZOX7_NTBe6LpXkLXP-m1ZF5RNLI_iVEBDLWQGYXamFKmOfYKWmt8GIxItv2L6g1BaYazJN7gnzZp-aLTF6PdPNVgoP28pydjCmCcojPVZlL9aAbRvtAUm-5MM3s3HZvVEb8I_BYtPhK_/s640/Rich10.jpg" width="640" /></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;">John Wyver of Illuminations has posted a new blog on the preparations for the live broadcast into cinemas of the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of <i>Richard II</i>. The play, directed by Gregory Doran and starring David Tennant, opened on Thursday to unanimous critical acclaim.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John and his team will be taking charge of producing the live broadcast in three weeks time and are making their final plans . The 2 hour 45 minute production will be broadcast live into UK cinemas on Wednesday 13th November and subsequently streamed into UK schools and into cinemas worldwide. The ambitious project is the first in a series of RSC Live From Stratford-upon-Avon screenings.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/2013/10/music-do-i-hear/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Read John Wyver's blog here</b></span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more about the live broadcast of Richard II here</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II will play in residence in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November 2013 when it will then transfer to The Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>.<br /><br />The run is completely sold out, but there may be returns. You can check for returns by phoning the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110.</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;"><a href="http://news.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue;">Read more about Richard II on our website</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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Win Tickets To See David Tennant In Richard II With The Guardian

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqhJzVHkyE2kmUrofwL7FnRb7H9nP4qwv9xnv50j7ofSOT8psJROrVb3yaxodBF_SvfT5_W_FkyzIYkWMGDd_EsJR_jFodvXKraqtitM5EA0xHwwFt-y2LbI-CjaFgyD77A-TS2F5kowo/s1600/rich5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqhJzVHkyE2kmUrofwL7FnRb7H9nP4qwv9xnv50j7ofSOT8psJROrVb3yaxodBF_SvfT5_W_FkyzIYkWMGDd_EsJR_jFodvXKraqtitM5EA0xHwwFt-y2LbI-CjaFgyD77A-TS2F5kowo/s1600/rich5.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;">The Guardian Extra have 15 pairs of tickets to see David Tennant in Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on Tuesday 12th November up for grabs in an exclusive competition.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/extra/2013/oct/15/1" target="_blank">Click here to find out more.</a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentcolor; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Richard is King. 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. RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran </span><span style="color: black;">directs David Tennant in the title role.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentcolor; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Richard II will play in residence in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November 2013 when it will then transfer to The Barbican in London.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The run is completely sold out, but there may be returns. You can get returns by phoning the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentcolor; color: white; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div>

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Saturday Review Discuss Richard II Starring David Tennant

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6NorJmzM32Xa8k6-yMQsV5Akkkq8ti0uHSIdOTWxI8p9UPV8EVELD6k8pIOIKlZ-IrUORBBM833IWA-aPJsxSGnOKCAI1zHLx-4Ic-hdPAxgUzBmJlzR9TORq6iBTqAv52gbnumX97EYc/s1600/rich4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6NorJmzM32Xa8k6-yMQsV5Akkkq8ti0uHSIdOTWxI8p9UPV8EVELD6k8pIOIKlZ-IrUORBBM833IWA-aPJsxSGnOKCAI1zHLx-4Ic-hdPAxgUzBmJlzR9TORq6iBTqAv52gbnumX97EYc/s1600/rich4.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;">The new Royal Shakespeare Company staging of <i>Richard II</i> was one of the topics under discussion on BBC Radio 4's <i>Saturday Review</i> programme yesterday. The production, which stars David Tennant and is directed by Gregory Doran, opened last Thursday to great acclaim throughout the press.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Richard II </i>was discussed by Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Sarfraz Manzoor, Natalie Haynes and Peter Kemp.You can listen to their conversation via BBC iPlayer. The review starts at around 3 minutes into the show.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03ddnfk/Saturday_Review_David_Tennant_as_Richard_II_The_Goldfinch_Enough_Said"><b><span style="color: blue;">Saturday Review: David Tennant as Richard II</span></b></a></span><br /><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 stars David Tennant with Nigel Lindsay, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davies, Jane Lapotaire and Emma Hamilton. The production is in residence at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> until 16th November 2013. It transfers to the Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> on 9th December where it plays until 25th January 2014. Both runs are currently sold out but returns may be available: call the RSC on 0844 800 1110 to check availability</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The production will be filmed on November 13th and broadcast into cinemas across the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> and worldwide. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">More information can be found on the RSC Onscreen site</span></a>. The recorded play will also be released on DVD.</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;">Read more about the RSC's Richard II on our website</span></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>

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Read The Latest Illuminations Blog On Richard II: ‘Praises, Of Whose Taste The Wise Are Fond’

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGdtJeyi-b0VqcXaRSwCWecxRnzKQgAsOYOfEYrkJCOW_sxnSJIV-UWAAt_ZnKMduhyphenhyphenxsTqrfFM5bAAW8Ex-FDAXua0RqxI0LrMhH8vrjAtecBPCE1kA_4CY76INg6_7ei4IzleWaKmP-/s1600/Rich17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGdtJeyi-b0VqcXaRSwCWecxRnzKQgAsOYOfEYrkJCOW_sxnSJIV-UWAAt_ZnKMduhyphenhyphenxsTqrfFM5bAAW8Ex-FDAXua0RqxI0LrMhH8vrjAtecBPCE1kA_4CY76INg6_7ei4IzleWaKmP-/s640/Rich17.jpg" width="640" /></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;">John Wyver, writer, producer and co-founder of Illuminations, has published his latest blog on the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of <i>Richard II. </i>John will be producing the live broadcast of the play into cinemas across the UK and around the world, and has been documenting the journey of the production from early rehearsals, previews and opening night as he and his team prepare for the filmed event.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the new article, John lists his top ten things that he really likes about Greg Doran's new staging. He includes the minimalist design, the live miusic, the terrific ensemble cast and of course, the central performance of David Tennant as King Richard:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<i>Occasionally you see a production in which there is an actor who commands your eye at every moment – not in a selfish way, but simply through their charisma. I remember Vanessa Redgrave in The Lady from the Sea long ago in a Manchester Royal Exchange production, and I remember Kevin Spacey at the Almeida in The Iceman Cometh… and I will remember David Tennant in <st1:city w:st="on">Stratford</st1:city>.</i>"</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;"><a href="http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/2013/10/ten/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Read the full blog post here</b></span></a></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;">John is also compiling a list of <i>Richard II</i> resources and reactions to the play which will be updated regularly</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;"><a href="http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/2013/10/words-life-and-all/"><span style="color: blue;">Read more here</span></a></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;">Richard II stars David Tennant with Nigel Lindsay, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davies, Jane Lapotaire and Emma Hamilton. The production is in residence at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> until 16th November 2013. It transfers to the Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> on 9th December where it plays until 25th January 2014. Both runs are currently sold out but returns are available: call the RSC on 0844 800 1110 to check availability</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The production will be filmed on November 13th and broadcast into cinemas across the <st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place>and worldwide. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">More information can be found on the RSC Onscreen site</span></a>. The recorded play will also be released on DVD.</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;">Read more about the RSC's Richard II on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div>

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PHOTOS: Richard II Review And Gallery Of New Production Images

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUphn2JCbLwdaEPOxUq_LqcE245n72Dkxw9f99YUaaR42nhzd5XnFa9pM9TNsr-g1q_wkfRKCBVy3t1YS8TyMQshQpHXDYShLXw8NEBzr3_SdIKULPj6YFkL4SSbmgaRy7TN3nLuoGRCQv/s1600/Rich02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUphn2JCbLwdaEPOxUq_LqcE245n72Dkxw9f99YUaaR42nhzd5XnFa9pM9TNsr-g1q_wkfRKCBVy3t1YS8TyMQshQpHXDYShLXw8NEBzr3_SdIKULPj6YFkL4SSbmgaRy7TN3nLuoGRCQv/s640/Rich02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Coventry Telegraph have reviewed the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard II starring David Tennant. With their review they have posted a photo gallery which includes some new production images from the play.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reviewer Catherine Vonledebur says:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Former Dr Who star Tennant, whose run as Hamlet in 2008 was a sell-out, gives an intriguing and intelligent performance as the flawed ruler."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25-qS1r78Vr8U9QDMtP37Qw2Phf-WNHYLd9CxRlTtzxNB1wf98msMGqHu_Ht0PP2Ut-BG354Z77KduXn1ShONov0vmss5BQKyh0HXa2W01AHSkeFqcLSGJ6E1bdhS025twmhCISCAaTQG/s1600/Rich05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj25-qS1r78Vr8U9QDMtP37Qw2Phf-WNHYLd9CxRlTtzxNB1wf98msMGqHu_Ht0PP2Ut-BG354Z77KduXn1ShONov0vmss5BQKyh0HXa2W01AHSkeFqcLSGJ6E1bdhS025twmhCISCAaTQG/s640/Rich05.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDAROBK5FsZr8hGBP1mOA_kWH9DnGx9KLgIth0RxPoXwrKkdioW_ud_BPHePYrMy-UrQKEcy4KzrK-dWV3GNNOBm-kmsNGtky7K9kCu80P4tV_I6LE61HUgMCrxoMIp9zhBtFOZrhi_Ne/s1600/Rich10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDAROBK5FsZr8hGBP1mOA_kWH9DnGx9KLgIth0RxPoXwrKkdioW_ud_BPHePYrMy-UrQKEcy4KzrK-dWV3GNNOBm-kmsNGtky7K9kCu80P4tV_I6LE61HUgMCrxoMIp9zhBtFOZrhi_Ne/s640/Rich10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/whats-on/whats-on-opinion/photos-richard-ii-royal-shakespeare-6205544"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the review and see the full photo gallery here</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II stars David Tennant with Nigel Lindsay, Michael Pennington, Oliver Ford Davies, Jane Lapotaire and Emma Hamilton. The production is in residence at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> until 16th November 2013. It transfers to the Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> on 9th December where it plays until 25th January 2014. Both runs are currently sold out but returns are available: call the RSC on 0844 800 1110 to check availability</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 production will be filmed on November 13th and broadcast into cinemas across the UK and worldwide. The recorded play will also be released on DVD.</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;">More information about Richard II starring David Tennant is available on our website</span></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>

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Richard II Family Workshop This Morning

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNzp6ZxYxwVatSNtcNRbXq-ofl56gz5wTGKmU3T1k4lYz6cMUWGJwajV8Hy6SYlunahnhGUfwc5K_iVdYYmSTW3hM3ix_1X3Fjb4tAT3qFHCiiB7FvWJg3zGggvRFyUwAMA8cDgalLLE/s1600/WoS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLNzp6ZxYxwVatSNtcNRbXq-ofl56gz5wTGKmU3T1k4lYz6cMUWGJwajV8Hy6SYlunahnhGUfwc5K_iVdYYmSTW3hM3ix_1X3Fjb4tAT3qFHCiiB7FvWJg3zGggvRFyUwAMA8cDgalLLE/s1600/WoS5.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;">The Royal Shakespeare will be hosting a Richard II Family Workshop this morning in Stratford-upon-Avon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They say:</span><br /><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take part in a fun family workshop and work as an actor does, on your feet!</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No previous acting experience or knowledge of the play required, as you'll be introduced to the story on the day.<br />We approach the play from the first day of rehearsal, exploring Shakespeare's plays and characters on our feet and speaking the language. For children aged eight years and up and parents/carers.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/events/family-workshop.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more here.</span></a></div>

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The Royal Shakespeare will be hosting a Richard II Family Workshop this morning in Stratford-upon-Avon. They say: Take part in a fun family ...

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Q&A With The Royal Shakespeare Company Head Of Costume

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5WAKjcv_oLDH9-_uHgOelvZw7nTE3axiSC1Ui7kj46z7_xiE_fWVTw9kHYV6YMZg1qSCQ2JcpLgfTGrJUnpx-fR3wj9y9OmW13GPv6JGri-QUOwhoaSy22A5U_yL6aY1V0pSkNG4ULhv/s1600/RII-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB5WAKjcv_oLDH9-_uHgOelvZw7nTE3axiSC1Ui7kj46z7_xiE_fWVTw9kHYV6YMZg1qSCQ2JcpLgfTGrJUnpx-fR3wj9y9OmW13GPv6JGri-QUOwhoaSy22A5U_yL6aY1V0pSkNG4ULhv/s1600/RII-17.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;">Alistair McArthur, the Head of Costume for the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been answering questions on his work and the preparations for <i>Richard III </i>posed by fans via Twitter and Facebook. The department have been working flat out to ensure that the look for the new production which opened last night is just right.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In response to questions specifically about David Tennant's costumes he replied:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What did you use then to create the costume David is going to wear? And how many costumes is he going to wear? </span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David has about eight different looks. Stephen Brimson Lewis, the designer, chose lightweight silk and jersey fabrics that had a contemporary yet medieval quality to them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did you consider Converse for David? </span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, the design is based in the medieval period!</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alistair talks more about working closely with the actors and the designer, ensuring that the costumes survive the run of the play and what happens to them after the production closes. </span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/richard-ii/costumes-q-and-a.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read the full Q&A here</span></a></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alistair also features in the RSC Video Production Diary 6 where he he gives a tour of the Costume Department and shows his team at work. Watch it here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/woA1Ezc1UKI" 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><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II is in residence at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> until 16th November 2013. It transfers to the Barbican in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> on 9th December where it plays until 25th January 2014. Both runs are currently sold out but returns are available: call the RSC on 0844 800 1110 to check availability</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;">More information about Richard II starring David Tennant is available on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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VIDEO: Richard II - Production Diary 8

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6crxhXTYC8cNEFgPX-CPoyon5a3Hytul8vOwIh_PrjEOFCMKH8SuiDuJlNBSEtNamSQPFtbZFb0VFfcAAg75a1yc2kCJAZSULzyjredaNqVN_PwvfSNX4u2yGoUSY8PVuY853K_jjDh4/s1600/rich4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6crxhXTYC8cNEFgPX-CPoyon5a3Hytul8vOwIh_PrjEOFCMKH8SuiDuJlNBSEtNamSQPFtbZFb0VFfcAAg75a1yc2kCJAZSULzyjredaNqVN_PwvfSNX4u2yGoUSY8PVuY853K_jjDh4/s1600/rich4.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weeks Richard II production diary focuses on the music of the play. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">The music of the court of Richard II as imagined by Bruce O'Neil, the RSC's Head of Music, and Paul Englishby, composer. They've created the musical landscape for this production and share a few of its 'divine and angelic' musical moments.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="line-height: 17px;">The RSC always have musicians playing live in their theatres for their performances because as Bruce says, 'It really gives you a special atmosphere that you can't reproduce in any other way.'</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch the video below:</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/aln--xk8tes?rel=0" width="640"></iframe></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/richard-ii/music-and-speeches.aspx" style="border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A recording from the play can be purchased as a CD in the RSC shop or a download from the iTunes store</a><span style="line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></b>

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This weeks Richard II production diary focuses on the music of the play.  The music of the court of Richard II as imagined by Bruce O'Ne...

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Listen To David Tennant's Richard II Speech 'Of Comfort No Man Speak'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54V2BFQIkfVx7Xuz0m9VI3JsHR5BMgtz-C3MoYsTbB_XItkTNWy7oUgE5F_VPBhk5kcEhwz_dyFDcdkiqk-wLCn5K0DBfUpOOMnrjP97a8iTdx0Q9Y7t6EEbRmbGAXI4Y5Dp21BUadg4/s1600/r10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54V2BFQIkfVx7Xuz0m9VI3JsHR5BMgtz-C3MoYsTbB_XItkTNWy7oUgE5F_VPBhk5kcEhwz_dyFDcdkiqk-wLCn5K0DBfUpOOMnrjP97a8iTdx0Q9Y7t6EEbRmbGAXI4Y5Dp21BUadg4/s1600/r10.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br />The soundtrack to the Royal Shakespeare Company's Richard II is now available to listen to via Spotify.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can listen to David Tennant's speech 'Of Comfort No Man Speak' from Act 3 Scene II below:</span><br /><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;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="580" src="https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:track:13Di0zphMl770cb666FP7X" width="500"></iframe><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=400753648428227326" name="144" style="background-color: white;"><br /></a><b>Richard II: </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter where; of comfort no man speak:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's choose executors and talk of wills:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet not so, for what can we bequeath</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Save our deposed bodies to the ground?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And nothing can we call our own but death</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that small model of the barren earth</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And tell sad stories of the death of kings;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How some have been deposed; some slain in war,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All murder'd: for within the hollow crown</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That rounds the mortal temples of a king</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Allowing him a breath, a little scene,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Infusing him with self and vain conceit,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As if this flesh which walls about our life,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comes at the last and with a little pin</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With solemn reverence: throw away respect,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For you have but mistook me all this while:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I live with bread like you, feel want,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How can you say to me, I am a king?</span><br /><br />

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTZf1pw_weJTT-BasPX6EC8aCS0pFgCpnii4aMkXJGiIDmvCuQfsS5O6G5OP3zmmKTmsMOxxgi42JjPpVDcuVYr8nug_Z93abpAEboXDmQGuhnmwNiVLbC2jAizrTA72aEEK8-fkOijI/s1600/rich1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTZf1pw_weJTT-BasPX6EC8aCS0pFgCpnii4aMkXJGiIDmvCuQfsS5O6G5OP3zmmKTmsMOxxgi42JjPpVDcuVYr8nug_Z93abpAEboXDmQGuhnmwNiVLbC2jAizrTA72aEEK8-fkOijI/s640/rich1.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> <br /> David Tennant's latest theatre project, Richard II, has opened to rave reviews after it's Press Night at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon last night.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It's a 4 star review from The Times with Dominic Maxwell saying:</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He hasn't got a clue has he? You can see that from the moment David Tennant's Richard II arrives on stage with his chin uo, his hair Timotei-long, his robes and his diction refined to the point of self parody. This takes a moment to adjust to. So regularly do we root for Tennant as the heroic outsider, whether in Doctor Who or Broadchurch or even in his RSC Hamlet, that it's odd to see him back a losing horse. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When he descends from the ceiling on a golden throne, the gap couldn't be clearer between his notion of himself as a God-given ruler and our notion of him as a bit of a berk.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that Tennant's performance or Gregory Doran's RSC production turn out to be cartoonish. One of the hottest tickets of the year long before it opened, this is a clear, propulsive, absorbing three hours of a history play that is no cinch to stage. After all, it's in verse. It has no battles. At the first sign of uprising, the belly aching Richard pretty much deposes himself ("Let's talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs..."). "Richard II is not an action packed drama", understates the introduction to the Penguin edition of the play. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here, though, it grips, aided by Paul Englishby's beautiful period music and Stephen Brimson Lewis's spare, guilded sets. And what Tennant does, brilliantly, is to suggest a man who feels as hollow as his crown. Who play acts at being himself. Who makes bad judgments, such as expelling his cousing Bolingbroke, soon to become Henry IV, that are a weak man's idea of being strong. He is hiding his true sexuality too, to judge by his long kiss with his cousin, Oliver Rix's Aumerle. And when he is trounced by Nigel Lindsay's stocky, gym-teacher-like Bolingbroke, he goes from ruler to martyr. he proffers the crown as if holding out a stick to a dog ("Here, cousin!").</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's electrifying.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We don't love him, but we get his grief in a play suffused with a sense of loss. Jane Lapotaire's Duchess of Gloucester mourns her husband and Michael Pennington's John Of Gaunt mourns what Richard has done to England in anguished moments that are both magnificent and a bit hard to absorb so early on. By the second half, though, Doran's production can sell everything from wit to desolation. Near the end, the Yorks, played by Oliver Ford Davies and Marty Cruickshank, row about his turning in their son, Aumerle as a traitor. It's pretty funny. It's also a resonant reminder of how the power play and posturing of politics is no job for amateurs. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8A69tkeeGVcT9vSElHkjmf3OaU_aRIpKvB_1uUKL74_zBV2b6sEYmRN52DF0urgVRLDXW5z1PIpOyw94Ci3CzX_A2DDVw1sVyaBlqe3PgZzzlY4TGQdHXw0lTLK5UrLq81IBtExt0vAE/s1600/r2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8A69tkeeGVcT9vSElHkjmf3OaU_aRIpKvB_1uUKL74_zBV2b6sEYmRN52DF0urgVRLDXW5z1PIpOyw94Ci3CzX_A2DDVw1sVyaBlqe3PgZzzlY4TGQdHXw0lTLK5UrLq81IBtExt0vAE/s1600/r2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><b>Writing a 4 star review for <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/first-night-richard-ii-royal-shakespeare-theatre-stratforduponavon-8887542.html#" target="_blank">The Independent</a> Paul Taylor says:</b></span><br /><div class="storyContent" style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.546875px; text-align: justify;"><h5><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">They covered themselves in glory five years ago with Hamlet; now David Tennant and Gregory Doran join forces again for this lucid and gripping account of Richard II. Having played the most intellectually searching of Shakespeare’s protagonists, who is painfully miscast as a revenge hero, Tennant – in splendid form here – trains his talents on the most self-absorbed and inward-looking of the Bard’s monarchs, who is fatally miscast as God’s anointed deputy on earth.</span></span></h5></div><div class="storyContent" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="body"><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his gorgeous, gold-embroidered robes (and long, flowing hair extensions, to boot), this Richard is wrapped in the mystique of medieval majesty. But he occupies the Gothic throne with a slouch of disgruntlement, his features congealed in disdain. Admirably resisting any temptation to make the king likeable, Tennant vividly exudes the bored irritability that erupts in tyrannical caprice. And impatience is making him reckless, too. In this production, he brazenly hears the dispute between Bolingbroke and Mowbray at the (interpolated) ceremonial lying-in-state of the Duke of Gloucester, whose murky murder (and, implicitly, Richard’s involvement in it) is itself the bone of contention.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then Richard is a monarch who would always choose theatrical effect over political prudence. With his great gift for playfulness, Tennant runs heavily sarcastic rings round his usurper in the deposition scene. Holding the crown at arm’s length, and with his back to the assembled company, he calls out “Here cousin”, in the tones of someone inviting a dog to play fetch. This is not a Richard who luxuriates in the lyricism of grief. Tennant delivers the plaintive, self-pitying arias with a scathing irony for the most part, flecked by tiny surrenders to abject panic – as though he were at once sufferer and observer of the tragic process whereby, when the royal persona shatters, it exposes the naked, insecure person underneath. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By contrast, Nigel Lindsay’s Bolingbroke presents himself as a plain-speaking bloke who has returned from exile solely to claim his rightful inheritance – though there’s a suggestion in his hooded watchfulness and the brutality with which he dispatches Richard’s flatterers that he has a devious, long-term strategy. He plays his cards close to his chest and is embarrassed by Richard, whose upstaging antics leave him having to force face-saving laughter in front of his followers.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interestingly, though, Doran is more interested in the king’s relationship with his other cousin, the young Aumerle. I should perhaps issue a spoiler alert for the rest of this paragraph. This production gives the pair a charged, private sequence on the walls of Flint Castle (evoked by the mobile gantry that slices across Stephen Brimson Lewis’s excellent design). The monarch’s speech of speculative capitulation (“What must the King do now? Must he submit?”) reduces his devoted number one supporter to such heartfelt, quiet tears that Tennant’s Richard is touched to a moment of rare compassion for another creature – treating his cousin to a tenderly passionate kiss and a cradling on his breast. But Aumerle, whose riven emotional state is beautifully conveyed by Oliver Rix, turns into the production’s most extreme casualty of the world of divided loyalties. Shopped to the new king by his own father for his treacherous plots, to what desperate lengths might such a man go to prove that he’s been born again politically? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There isn’t a weak link in the cast. Ferocious eloquence overcomes deathbed infirmity in Michael Pennington’s superb portrayal of John of Gaunt, and Oliver Ford Davies gives a fine edge of grumpy comedy to the Duke of York’s conscience-stricken dithering. Another palpable hit for the Tennant/Doran collaboration, the production transfers to the Barbican in December and will be broadcast live in cinemas on 13 November.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYEUaQ91yFiBgZGmUqw-4NOCQlvFJdKb4iY2TGVYgrnkQ1IaIpV_qpGncUk81XgFFWajoklYMj02BYXstnt30EwLNrAmFsW1pYBVTBuml5Pa2MJkl6u1Cv4IG-TL1_U6qjcSUwrDBswM/s1600/r12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYEUaQ91yFiBgZGmUqw-4NOCQlvFJdKb4iY2TGVYgrnkQ1IaIpV_qpGncUk81XgFFWajoklYMj02BYXstnt30EwLNrAmFsW1pYBVTBuml5Pa2MJkl6u1Cv4IG-TL1_U6qjcSUwrDBswM/s1600/r12.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://t.co/jjsNaSWmEC" target="_blank">The Guardian's</a> Michael Billington also gives 4 stars and heaps praise upon the cast and creatives:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This show marks the start of Gregory Doran's six-year plan to present the entire Shakespeare canon. It's fair to say that his own beautifully crafted, richly detailed production sets a high standard for himself and others to aim at. David Tennant, in a mesmerising performance that grows in power as Richard's authority declines, also reminds us that the Royal Shakespeare Company is an ensemble that paradoxically needs stars.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a sign of Doran's care that he makes clear the complex back-story that illuminates Shakespeare's play. An audience needs to know that Richard's original sin lies in sanctioning the murder of his uncle, the Duke of Gloucester. Michael Boyd began his 2007 production by having Richard stepping lightly over the corpse of the dead duke. Doran, even before Richard's entry, shows us elaborate funeral rites with three sopranos singing religious anthems in the upper galleries and the Duchess of Gloucester bent in grief over her husband's tomb. This is clearly a court steeped in mourning.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The prelude also gives Tennant a vital context in which to work. His Richard, with his brocade gown and Christ-like hair, initially affects an air of listless boredom as his burly barons hurl accusations of treason at each other. But there's a thrilling moment when Tennant gives the banished Mowbray a piercing stare as if daring him to spill the beans about the king's part in Gloucester's murder. Tennant combines inner guilt with a careless disregard for realpolitik as he seizes the land and goods of John of Gaunt after his death: a point reinforced here by the fact that we see tuns of treasure being bodily transported.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tennant's strengths, as we know from his Hamlet, are a capacity for quicksilver thought and an almost boyish vulnerability. And, even if he might do more to convey the patterned lyricism of the language, what he brings out excellently is the fact that Richard only learns to value kingship after he has lost it. In his decline, Tennant casually tosses the crown away and, at one point, skittishly places it on the head of his adored Aumerle. But in the Westminster deposition scene, where Tennant is at his best, he challenges Bolingbroke to "seize the crown" and, when his rival rises to the bait, immediately inverts it to suggest a falling bucket. Tennant's great achievement is to attract our sympathy to what the gardener calls a "wasteful king" who abuses power when he has it and who achieves tragic dignity only in his downfall.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But this production, which combines period costumes with back-projections in Stephen Brimson Lewis's elegant design, is emphatically no one-man show. Nigel Lindsay's Bolingbroke is a palpably dangerous figure who treats Richard's remission of his initial banishment with surly disdain and openly scorns the deposed king's self-conscious theatricality. It is also good to see a number of RSC veterans operating at top form in key roles.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oliver Ford Davies is brilliant as the Duke of York in that he highlights both the comedy and pathos of a man torn between ancestral loyalty to the crown and a recognition of Bolingbroke's power. Michael Pennington's John of Gaunt is also a fine study of a dying man bursting with intemperate rage at Richard's betrayal of his country. And Jane Lapotaire turns the Duchess of Gloucester into a silver-haired figure whose widowed grief manifests itself in a burning appetite for revenge.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The packed houses for this production's run in both Stratford and at the Barbican may have much to do with Tennant's star presence. But this is the strongest company the RSC has fielded in years, and what Doran's production brings out is the rich complexity of a play that raises the eternal question of at what point it becomes legitimate to unseat a manifestly flawed ruler. Shakespeare's play may be set in 14th-century England. It remains, however, a timelessly political work.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuqquCtmD2RVhKBWxItVSBrQn7mRqAG2k3jgUHOJRPU1tfv5FBkBHqtAT8h7YFBdrfaGUYcQLU71-2aBpTqDJ6SbwbrYtsoAriYK_D0FELCLBbfauR-wc9jYP0xWLsaxWN06FoLCXkbs/s1600/r13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPuqquCtmD2RVhKBWxItVSBrQn7mRqAG2k3jgUHOJRPU1tfv5FBkBHqtAT8h7YFBdrfaGUYcQLU71-2aBpTqDJ6SbwbrYtsoAriYK_D0FELCLBbfauR-wc9jYP0xWLsaxWN06FoLCXkbs/s1600/r13.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It's another 4 star review from <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/10385663/Richard-II-Royal-Shakespeare-Theatre-Stratford-upon-Avon-review.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">The Telegraph's</a> Dominic Cavendish:</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> <span style="text-align: start;">Five years after his </span>spellbinding Hamlet<span style="text-align: start;">, David Tennant is back at the RSC and reunited with director (now artistic director) Gregory Doran for Richard II. Last time round there was a lot of hoo-ha about Doctor Who and a box-office frenzy. Maybe there’ll be more of that again, with Tennant joining Matt Smith for the 50th anniversary special next month. But for the moment, a calm air of focus prevails; Tennant, 42, is in his natural element – and day tickets are available.</span></span><br /><div class="secondPar" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His hair takes some getting used to: great gingery-brown extensions trail girlishly downwards. Long, magisterial, quasi-medieval robes add to the effeminate impression. In Act III, at Flint Castle, beset by ruin, this Richard leans close and kisses his cousin Aumerle (the youthful, boyish Oliver Rix) on the lips. As with Hamlet, so with Richard – there’s an identity crisis at play (“remember who you are”, Aumerle counsels, as if that were possible), but here it’s of a sexual nature too. And in a further directorial flourish, Doran makes Aumerle the last face the imprisoned, ousted monarch sees, plunging the dagger into him.</span></div></div><div class="thirdPar" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall, though, this production is more reverent than radical. Doran has suggested he will work slowly, steadily, through the canon – and the first scene especially, in which Nigel Lindsay’s tough, gruff, almost too-too solid Bolingbroke squares up to Antony Byrne’s aggrieved Mowbray – each accusing the other of treason – feels slow and steady to a fault. Richard’s reign, some 20 years in at this stage (1398), was in severe trouble. Thanks to an emphasised aura of restraint – signalled by a stark, simple set from Stephen Brimson Lewis, augmented by subtle projections on towering screens – you don’t get much sense of the hurly-burly of this chapter of history or of events spinning wildly out of the king’s weakening control.</span></div></div><div class="fourthPar" style="line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With his startled eyes and concentrated frown, Tennant is frail, pale and consistently interesting but the nervous energy he excels in is confined to quarters early on. Trumpets sound, sopranos trill sacred music as if wafting incense; the king is embalmed in ceremony, cloaked in remoteness.</span></div></div><div class="fifthPar" style="text-align: start;"><div style="line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s the older hands who galvanise proceedings with emotional intensity in the first half. A quivering Jane Lapotaire as the widowed Duchess of Gloucester, spilling over with unconfined grief, that perpetually stooped, hangdog actor Oliver Ford Davies as the fretful Duke of York and Michael Pennington, little short of magnificent as John of Gaunt – lending febrile and ferocious emphasis to his “This sceptr’d isle” speech and to those last-gasp accusations against Richard.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The evening is always lucid but only truly crystalises as things fall apart. Richard spasms with panic as he grasps the frailty of existence, crawling on the floor in abjection. He’s appealingly sardonic as he bows in exaggeration before his usurper, and at the end, having taken on the aspect of Christ, he appears aloft on a gantry, looking down in beatific accusation as Bolingbroke contemplates the blood on his hands. Tennant shines, but he has shone brighter.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmBH9kWWElSe3qGXqrS9-eFFgic0h2B4_a1z027qu2Y8u9wUGiYi6SG0J67OzRkjEYVfYEDrqiT9tpXlfEFyVjRinktkGlX5kaVntZrHTr0YmMvTMuF_McCmfdd2cAEECbcBEcFMOWS8/s1600/r17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVmBH9kWWElSe3qGXqrS9-eFFgic0h2B4_a1z027qu2Y8u9wUGiYi6SG0J67OzRkjEYVfYEDrqiT9tpXlfEFyVjRinktkGlX5kaVntZrHTr0YmMvTMuF_McCmfdd2cAEECbcBEcFMOWS8/s1600/r17.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.7em;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/437598/Richard-II-at-RSC-Stratford-upon-Avon-review" target="_blank">The Daily Express</a> gives a 5 star review with Neil Norman saying:</b></span></div><div class="p1" style="border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often represented as effete and capricious, even gay, Richard needs a very special actor to seek out all the crevices of his personality.</span></div><div class="p1" style="border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant is that actor. From the moment he arrives on stage in a kind of gilded sheath with his long hair held back by a crown to attend his uncle Gloucester's funeral, he shows us with sly precision a man in thrall to his own vanity, seduced by his anointed position and intelligent enough to be aware of both. As his role becomes increasingly challenging and challenged by the remorseless Bolingbroke (Nigel Lindsay), Richard's doubts about his fitness to rule leak out as if from invisible wounds while the sub-textual debates - pragmatist v aesthete, philistine v artist - hover in the ether.</span></div><div class="p1" style="border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gregory Doran's production is superbly orchestrated from the opening funeral in a soaring Gothic cathedral with three sopranos and musicians to Richard's abdication which turns into a tug-of-war over the crown with Bolingbroke.</span></div><div class="p1" style="border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a lucid, moving production packed with tremendous performances. From Michael Pennington's John of Gaunt, the last great Englishman, to Oliver Ford Davies's wonderfully bewildered Duke of York. Emma Hamilton as the Queen, Marty Cruickshank as the Duchess of York and Jane Lapotaire as the bereaved Duchess of Gloucester all make striking contributions.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The sense of England is prevalent throughout. Returning from Ireland Richard strokes the ground with a lover's caress, as if nourished by the earth itself. Whether sashaying around like a 14th-century David Bowie or stumbling like a Christ figure hauled before Bolingbroke's Pontius Pilate, Tennant captures Richard's androgyny, suggesting a man more asexual than bisexual. But he is no pushover. When the murderers come for him he goes down fighting. I was sorely tempted to cheer.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Verdict: 5/5</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjym_HFVfXyVynAKVr2yNb0trktrEhqQcsFO6JXWRsnNAmha64S6KiHEuXveI0nOTREvG87fTgFlyW5oOk-J4-8u6P7wsS05yFdgUbKMg7J4Tway9FkC2TKfXveOKBa_p8FhWg-8-ldrOg/s1600/r14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjym_HFVfXyVynAKVr2yNb0trktrEhqQcsFO6JXWRsnNAmha64S6KiHEuXveI0nOTREvG87fTgFlyW5oOk-J4-8u6P7wsS05yFdgUbKMg7J4Tway9FkC2TKfXveOKBa_p8FhWg-8-ldrOg/s1600/r14.jpg" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/richard-ii-royal-shakespeare-theatre--theatre-review-8888556.html" target="_blank">Henry Hitchings also rates the show as 4 star in The Evening Standard:</a></b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Five years on from his electrifying Hamlet, David Tennant returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Richard II. From the moment of its announcement this has been one of the year’s hottest tickets.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Tennant does not disappoint. He delivers a vivid, intelligent performance, at least as mesmerising as the best of his TV work. He is certainly not afraid to make Richard dislikable. Instead of the poetic soul we tend to see, his Richard is irritable. In the early scenes he is petulant and smug.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">With fluting voice and waist-length hair (Tennant sports mighty extensions) he is a picture of prissy narcissism. And he skips around the stage like a child who has had too many sweets.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">From the outset Tennant’s Richard is excitingly unpredictable and as his authority crumbles he transforms intriguingly from a gilded tyrant into a more vulnerable character — yet one who is capable of bursts of aggression. By the end he is a holy man in a flowing white robe.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Gregory Doran’s production moves slowly for the first hour or so but it is satisfying both visually and dramatically. It also benefits from the strongest RSC cast in a long time.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Tennant’s Richard contrasts nicely with Nigel Lindsay’s robust, manly Bolingbroke. Michael Pennington makes a poignantly eloquent John of Gaunt, while Jane Lapotaire and Marty Cruickshank bring real substance to lesser roles. Oliver Ford Davies deserves a special mention: his Duke of York is an unalloyed delight.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Doran places an unusual emphasis on the king’s cousin Aumerle (Oliver Rix) and it is Richard’s relationship with him — coloured by awkward lust — that defines the production.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">This is a clear, detailed and dynamic account of a drama that can often seem glutted with artful rhetoric and ceremonial formality. It is an impressive start to Doran’s campaign to stage all Shakespeare’s plays. Richard II will come to the Barbican in December, as well as being shown in cinemas on November 13.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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Richard II Music And Speeches CD Released Today

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlseUqfNByhUM16IWt3OkX64euwG27dsItatRGTtf6C9kGsk43IYopbbjvSG85ViFHgw-4Z77qKYTXmUmOL6ss1w_8X2MqhnjVfxOeOYpt09tgQ_ecXUTl6pS15-cvIPo0gs_Vs_2ENU/s1600/richardonstage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlseUqfNByhUM16IWt3OkX64euwG27dsItatRGTtf6C9kGsk43IYopbbjvSG85ViFHgw-4Z77qKYTXmUmOL6ss1w_8X2MqhnjVfxOeOYpt09tgQ_ecXUTl6pS15-cvIPo0gs_Vs_2ENU/s640/richardonstage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new RSC CD featuring music and speeches from David Tennant's Richard II is released today.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This CD features music from the new production composed by Paul Englishby, along with speeches performed by cast members David Tennant, Jane Lapotaire and Michael Pennington It also includes music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the 1913 RSC production of <i>Richard II</i>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Track listing</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Lacrimosa (Paul Englishby)<br />2. Richard (Paul Englishby)<br />3. Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? (speech Act I Sc ii Duchess of Gloucester - Jane Lapotaire)<br />4. In Paradisum (Paul Englishby)<br />5. Methinks I am a prophet new inspired (speech Act II Sc i John of Gaunt - Michael Pennington)<br />6. True Born Englishman (Paul Englishby)<br />7. Sicut Cervus (Paul Englishby)<br />8. Of comfort no man speak (speech Act III Sc ii Richard II - David Tennant)<br />9. Bolingbroke (Paul Englishby)<br />10. Requiem Aeternam (Paul Englishby)<br />11. Eased with being nothing (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />12. Greensleeves (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />13. In weeping after this untimely bier (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />14. Agnus dei (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />15. Pie Jesu, Amen (Paul Englishby)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CD is out now and costs £5 or £4.50 for RSC members</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/shop/item/62328-richard-ii-music--speeches-cd-2013/" style="display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Order your copy here</span></b></a></div>

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Listen Now: Richard II Review From BBC Radio Three

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYGwgONv5lvFoJbjUGR-aWZLpdbDAD08xWEG8uH0ansEB_SGqjNbGEbV3wmzXDELuyflKvUCAknTCo8CM-3xmd9EUhSspytKdHsEI1PlSj_Kz6a1ZfBP-VMm9kgOCLkxmbjkZML5lfjZDg/s1600/RII-08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYGwgONv5lvFoJbjUGR-aWZLpdbDAD08xWEG8uH0ansEB_SGqjNbGEbV3wmzXDELuyflKvUCAknTCo8CM-3xmd9EUhSspytKdHsEI1PlSj_Kz6a1ZfBP-VMm9kgOCLkxmbjkZML5lfjZDg/s640/RII-08.jpg" width="572" /></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;">Following the opening night of <i>Richard II </i>at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon tonight, Susannah Clapp and Anne McElvoy have reviewed the performance on BBC Radio 3's <i>Night Waves</i>. The production, directed by Gregory Doran, stars David Tennant in the lead role.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anne McElvoy praises David for his physicality and mercurial clarity and refers to a production that is at once traditional and contemporary. They also speak highly of the performances by Oliver Ford Davies and Michael Pennington.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The review also includes a clip of David Tennant and Michael Pennington as King Richard and John Of Gaunt</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jxdsq"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen to the review here</span></b></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For more information about Richard II visit our website</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br />

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Gregory Doran On David Tennant's Magnificently Regal New Look

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cWNMwqV1B_2CLubFaMfcfCpaMnl7EwfRhpbRHToZ7gEYZ2tXdPMkUHnGEG5gLsGD-O2Sn3eDN5m6pfloOH4DLJ75Ac0bzzj-97m4JGJ0VeKdeQvQaymZAcSRZPIptL6dmffaJ80DR_g/s1600/r9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cWNMwqV1B_2CLubFaMfcfCpaMnl7EwfRhpbRHToZ7gEYZ2tXdPMkUHnGEG5gLsGD-O2Sn3eDN5m6pfloOH4DLJ75Ac0bzzj-97m4JGJ0VeKdeQvQaymZAcSRZPIptL6dmffaJ80DR_g/s640/r9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With his long golden toned locks and opulent robes, David Tennant's image for his role as Richard II in the new Royal Shakespeare Company production, is nothing short of religiously regal. Lit by the glow of the spotlight David looks positively ethereal as he saunters his way across the stage.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Director Gregory Doran says:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The long hair is partly to respond to the notion of Richard as an aesthete, whose rarified court stood in opposition to the belligerent Dukes. It also reflects his conscious positioning of himself as Christ betrayed by Judas. In the deposition scene he refers to himself several times directly as Christ."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The show opened for previews on 10th October and will play in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November 2013 when it will then transfer to The Barbican in London.</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The run is completely sold out, but there may be returns. You can ask for returns by phoning the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://news.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about David Tennant's Richard II on our website here.</span></a></span>

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PHOTOS: More Richard II Production Photos From WhatsOnStage

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJti7mCDMG8siieFtoniCLs82fPznGjipzTh570nRBWZXRek5cltHYd-Fa5E8wZrncCvM39wPqIsJ8dpXhxvB-6kGG_LO5yg7OxP-fUqcQkXukdvek6e-oGXQISbSvEzQvuf6wxvkdQ7Rd/s1600/WoS07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJti7mCDMG8siieFtoniCLs82fPznGjipzTh570nRBWZXRek5cltHYd-Fa5E8wZrncCvM39wPqIsJ8dpXhxvB-6kGG_LO5yg7OxP-fUqcQkXukdvek6e-oGXQISbSvEzQvuf6wxvkdQ7Rd/s1600/WoS07.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;">WhatsOnStage have posted a second batch of promotional shots from Richard II starring David Tennant. The production, directed by Gregory Doran, opens tonight at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon after a week of previews. David Tennant stars as King Richard with Nigel Lindsay, Oliver Ford Davies, Michael Pennington, Emma Hamilton, Oliver Rix and Jane Lapotaire. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about Richard II starring David Tennant here</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View more photos here:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkCvRndmbIOf9VDS1JI1j6IJDapyBuZ1A-m2MS3m4GwB9x5EW8m0GMKD8hJ4XRbpnCrDHCnTbGQa_Ajju0LWCygHx7QZfPH6d9Y0jMaK4zRN9wFcU-omQjUq-SgFIg1gYZooH5UIYlBXdn/s1600/WoS08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkCvRndmbIOf9VDS1JI1j6IJDapyBuZ1A-m2MS3m4GwB9x5EW8m0GMKD8hJ4XRbpnCrDHCnTbGQa_Ajju0LWCygHx7QZfPH6d9Y0jMaK4zRN9wFcU-omQjUq-SgFIg1gYZooH5UIYlBXdn/s1600/WoS08.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-BUsd4hqoQ9zTDDO_2sJ1pGF4dqMceY5Zg4d0onz5yxjQVYaUR0Bwwcu5cuEfm0OmDLQIeme6eMAgMwxpjm1ttP7c9uFy_FRWG-Lg8QagxyqylVn8o3EewpS44t3lPhDVSuv3Oui3qD-/s1600/WoS09.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-BUsd4hqoQ9zTDDO_2sJ1pGF4dqMceY5Zg4d0onz5yxjQVYaUR0Bwwcu5cuEfm0OmDLQIeme6eMAgMwxpjm1ttP7c9uFy_FRWG-Lg8QagxyqylVn8o3EewpS44t3lPhDVSuv3Oui3qD-/s1600/WoS09.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIir29Gw0apuFR9S5hoQ-QSn-eQCFrMPzRrADXlP6LVAfJb74-tuyHaYdd_TCKwTycXQa_5ueAz3jCIOtlq3HMGPGFuLqrSMGnKbrlVB34HDpzD1mRD74BywlN4QUOEC6ou5t2T_wwZbA/s1600/WoS10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmIir29Gw0apuFR9S5hoQ-QSn-eQCFrMPzRrADXlP6LVAfJb74-tuyHaYdd_TCKwTycXQa_5ueAz3jCIOtlq3HMGPGFuLqrSMGnKbrlVB34HDpzD1mRD74BywlN4QUOEC6ou5t2T_wwZbA/s1600/WoS10.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaRDBFtKxPkccRlFq86NbqPOa5NqMGstj7ZYC-v_3LlQ58aOjaal4iqgS_6J4x7JsA9O01CcN8UxnUfk3Wh_iMQGcmlhncyhdepedeRGM7uIRaQBCqj60SPT61M5wjyWJGapXiinHpmEP/s1600/WoS11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaRDBFtKxPkccRlFq86NbqPOa5NqMGstj7ZYC-v_3LlQ58aOjaal4iqgS_6J4x7JsA9O01CcN8UxnUfk3Wh_iMQGcmlhncyhdepedeRGM7uIRaQBCqj60SPT61M5wjyWJGapXiinHpmEP/s1600/WoS11.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQRdgR4RuNpZUu80HbT3mjgGmjfNeaTMtv-O9nPVDHp6F-hYs78EhgcWk_J54P6DdkzoSluzcmjHRdF0fRcbkzGpzzvVHvZVEX4p_SI0jLKD3dQH2HUE26QapcpoaRtxntI6mAg4IZbhQ/s1600/WoS13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQRdgR4RuNpZUu80HbT3mjgGmjfNeaTMtv-O9nPVDHp6F-hYs78EhgcWk_J54P6DdkzoSluzcmjHRdF0fRcbkzGpzzvVHvZVEX4p_SI0jLKD3dQH2HUE26QapcpoaRtxntI6mAg4IZbhQ/s1600/WoS13.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/10-2013/show-pics-david-tennant-gives-hair-raising-perform_32331.html">Source</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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PHOTOS: First Look At David Tennant As Richard II

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwOjftGCp0AlS-zIcdpjdukv58ZzTD703UmO1Y1N_TXoE_iEr-1NmXAbwAhAZgCOh1C6ZjrLY4_qUsuUsxWshOY4utPcAr8Gky94u97YEeWYDxMO3IhFr11MQULWh8Qnw7pDv1lFVNk8Tx/s1600/RII-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwOjftGCp0AlS-zIcdpjdukv58ZzTD703UmO1Y1N_TXoE_iEr-1NmXAbwAhAZgCOh1C6ZjrLY4_qUsuUsxWshOY4utPcAr8Gky94u97YEeWYDxMO3IhFr11MQULWh8Qnw7pDv1lFVNk8Tx/s640/RII-04.jpg" width="543" /></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;">The first photos have now been released of David Tennant in full costume as King Richard in the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of <i>Richard II </i>by William Shakespeare. The play, directed by Gregory Doran, enjoys its opening night tonight at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon following a week of previews. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play remains in Stratford until the 16th November and will then transfer to the Barbican in London from the 9th December till the 25th January 2014.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Tennant appears with Nigel Lindsay, Oliver Ford Davies, Michael Pennington, Emma Hamilton, Oliver Rix and Jane Lapotaire</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">View more photos here:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8JlsfijXvXcB_nDtIkYKqzfrf6SkahhIYar5njjd0IZmukALl0pEEmaeTeq7x0solXYjf5vS30efgTky5M1Ry1CjF-US2HRuReCW6P4apDir2f1J_764FeCZmW-5DCJtjFMvP6oschw4/s1600/RII-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about Richard II starring David Tennant here</span></a><br /><br /><br />

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The first photos have now been released of David Tennant in full costume as King Richard in the new Royal Shakespeare Company production of ...

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Richard II Press Night Tonight

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_Zh6-qGJ0m1QZICDy4tWakufSZ8Mq7T-5JFVo7EMBpzufTNFdxHqFhTlzFw2aQwPTYbU39yy0yBPYYSgMzVbSLbqOXuZwRozv-EBa9AldLZRW6rAN3TXqCeBpTQhRiC8EozXJqsJWr8/s1600/dick2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_Zh6-qGJ0m1QZICDy4tWakufSZ8Mq7T-5JFVo7EMBpzufTNFdxHqFhTlzFw2aQwPTYbU39yy0yBPYYSgMzVbSLbqOXuZwRozv-EBa9AldLZRW6rAN3TXqCeBpTQhRiC8EozXJqsJWr8/s640/dick2.png" width="640" /></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;">Tonight is the Press Night for Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show opened for previews on 10th October and will play in residence at the theatre until 16th November 2013 when it will then transfer to The Barbican in London.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The run is completely sold out, but there may be returns. You can get returns by phoning the RSC Ticket Hotline on 0844 800 1110.</span><br /><br /><br />

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Tonight is the Press Night for Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The show opened for previews on 10th Octo...

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Richard II Starring David Tennant To Be Released On DVD

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT215VQK2KI3tLuv8JgQrOfWsLCfpIB7hznJXGCr8kZ64lPGlW4QwlYrl5lhFh_ooz7-YidT5RPGKg_4SLOybFIuUrdd5hbAodAJCzqxwefBiuDojs5KFUVh4PQIp_AQd6ZWvGnUIscOUv/s1600/WoS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT215VQK2KI3tLuv8JgQrOfWsLCfpIB7hznJXGCr8kZ64lPGlW4QwlYrl5lhFh_ooz7-YidT5RPGKg_4SLOybFIuUrdd5hbAodAJCzqxwefBiuDojs5KFUVh4PQIp_AQd6ZWvGnUIscOUv/s1600/WoS2.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;">The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of <i>Richard II</i> will be released on DVD. Director Gregory Doran made the announcement this evening during the Director's talk at the Royal Shakepeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The production, which is currently in previews, opens in Stratford on Thursday night. It runs until 16th November 2013 before transfering to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. David Tennant stars as King Richard with Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke, Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt and Jane Lapotaire as the Duchess of Gloucester. John Wyver of Illuminatio</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ns will be producing a live stream of the play into cinemas across the UK on Wednesday 13th November; this recording will also be broadcast into UK schools and cinemas worldwide during the following months.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more about Richard II here</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More information about the DVD release will follow as soon as we have it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

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The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of  Richard II  will be released on DVD. Director Gregory Doran made the announcement this ev...

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