Richard II - First Preview: Twitter Reaction

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXuXRvLbTcuC_4q_0EIbTpCCW5Rolr1XMGIuRHrqwzs0nFRCmPCvSH0p6dRXtZjkFrShzsYh5xb9tHUNUqcYcWOfJ0Efdg3uuROsMz-zWCdQV2PLOLVMCjZX2IGyjB-a2QRl9ToGKIs74/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/AVvXsEgXuXRvLbTcuC_4q_0EIbTpCCW5Rolr1XMGIuRHrqwzs0nFRCmPCvSH0p6dRXtZjkFrShzsYh5xb9tHUNUqcYcWOfJ0Efdg3uuROsMz-zWCdQV2PLOLVMCjZX2IGyjB-a2QRl9ToGKIs74/s640/dick2.png" width="640" /></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;">It was the first night of previews for David Tennant's Richard II at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon last night. Reviews won't come in until Press Night on 17th October - which is the play's official opening night - so until then we're taking a quick look at the Twitter reaction to the first preview.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the audience:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/brizmofent" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@brizmofent</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Greg Doran's Richard II </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/TheRSC" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@TheRSC</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is, as expected, exceptional. Lucid and thrilling with Tennant an absolute joy.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/mullaneclaire" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mullaneclaire</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The first performance of Richard II was exhilarating. David Tennant was electrifying. Greg Doran works his magic again.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/antontroy" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@antontroy</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: The set is amazing </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RII&src=hash" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RII</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the stage is lower. Why couldn't it have been that height for the summer season. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/PatrickJoseph86" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@PatrickJoseph86</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Richard II was amazing! David Tennant was phenomenal! </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/XYvomUL7K4" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/XYvomUL7K4</a></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/vickster51" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@vickster51</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: RII good so far. Great set. Nigel Lindsay superb as is OFD. David Tennant conveying Richard's weak character well.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hamsterfur" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@hamsterfur</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: I've seen a few productions of RII but this is by far the clearest and most compelling so far.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/xxDTcrazyxx" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@xxDTcrazyxx</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23richardII&src=hash" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#richardII</a><span style="line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> epic fantastic and believable. David portrayed the character of Richard with passion logic and pure talent xx</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the cast also took to twitter:</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="username js-action-profile-name" style="direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;"><a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" data-user-id="138575975" href="https://twitter.com/YoussefKerkour" style="text-decoration: none;">@YoussefKerkour</a> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1st preview done! What a reception. David Tennant was absolutely stunning tonight as was the rest of the gang. Humbled. </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RichardII&src=hash" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">#RichardII</a><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/TheRSC" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">@TheRSC</a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="account-group js-account-group js-action-profile js-user-profile-link js-nav" data-user-id="211500324" href="https://twitter.com/NigelLindsay1" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> ‏</span><span class="username js-action-profile-name" style="direction: ltr; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">@NigelLindsay1</span></a> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Great first preview on Richard II. D Tennant flying. Thanks for all your lovely tweets. Hard to move this am. Do I have to do it again?</span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">And fans were thrilled that David kindly appeared at the stage door to sign for them last night:</span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/kitwhelan" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">@</span>kitwhelan</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;">: "Such a gentleman to come say hi to the fans :)" </span><span style="color: #009999;"><span class="tco-ellipsis" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://instagram.com/p/fTbGIBne26/" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/LbhDDwsCwv" rel="nofollow" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank" title="http://instagram.com/p/fTbGIBne26/"><span class="invisible" style="color: #009999; line-height: 0; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://</span><span class="js-display-url" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">instagram.com/p/fTbGIBne26/</span><span style="color: #009999;"><span class="invisible" style="line-height: 0; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span class="tco-ellipsis" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="invisible" style="line-height: 0;"> </span></span></a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/vickster51" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">@</span>vickster51</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - David Tennant's hair, now plaited </span><a class="twitter-hashtag pretty-link js-nav" data-query-source="hashtag_click" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RSCRichardII&src=hash" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">#</span>RSCRichardII</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/JvHK0mPEWA" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/JvHK0mPEWA</a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/vickster51" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #66c1c1;">@</span>vickster51</a><span style="color: #333333; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - David Tennant at the RSC </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/zqAz8k6xt8" style="color: #009999; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/zqAz8k6xt8</a></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find out more about Richard II on our website here.</span></a></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II runs at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon until 16th November it will then transfer to the Barbican in London on 9th December.</span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="stream-item-header"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div class="stream-item-header" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; 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