Richard II

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1986 production of Richard II. Directed by Barry Kyle with Jeremy Irons as Richard.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 11 Dec 1986
Duration: 165 mins

Director

Barry Kyle

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Stephen Oliver

Production Design

William Dudley

Cast

Jeremy Irons	King Richard II
Imogen Stubbs	Queen Isabel
Brewster Mason	John of Gaunt
Michael Kitchen	Bolingbroke
Eileen Page	Duchess of Gloucester
Bernard Horsfall	Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
David Glover	Sir Stephen Scroope
Dennis Edwards	Earl of Salisbury
Eileen Page	Lady attending the Queen
Eoin O’Callaghan	Murderer
John Patrick	Sir Piers Exton
John Patrick	Gardener’s man (1)
Malcolm Hassall	Bagot
Mark Lindley	York’s servant (Servant)
Mark Lindley	Murderer
Nathaniel Parker	Harry Percy
Paul Venables	Duke of Aumerle
Richard Easton	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Richard Moore	Thomas Mowbray
Robert Demeger	Bishop of Carlisle
Robert Morgan	Keeper of the prison at Pomfret
Robert Morgan	Green
Roger Moss	Groom of King Richard’s stable
Roger Watkins	Captain of the Welsh army
Roger Watkins	Lord Marshal
Rosalind Boxall	Duchess of York
Sean O’Callaghan	Duke of Surrey
Stan Pretty	Lord Willoughby
Stanley Dawson	Lord Ross

History: Press night 10 September 1986. The production transferred to the Barbican.
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: King, Francis Sunday Telegraph (14 August 1986) King writes’... Jeremy Irons’ Richard, resembling in his last scenes the figure of John the Baptist standing behind the still-reigning Richard in the Wilton Diptych in the National Gallery, is one of the finest in recent years...'

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
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Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
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Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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