Richard II

Synopsis: Stage recording of Peymann’s production for the famed Berliner Ensemble transmitted on German television. Initially set in an eerie sterile monochrome landscape, the production charts the demise of Richard’s reign with flying lumps of mud and an accumulation of stage debris. With Michael Maertens in the title role and Veit Schubert as Bolingbroke.
Language: German (Standard)
Country: Germany
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 2 May 2003 (Channel: ZDF Theaterkanal)
Duration: 159 mins

Notes: Transmission time unknown.
A viewing copy (VHS or DVD) can be ordered from the ZDF broadcasting corporation. Contact email: programmservice@zdf.de.

The production was part of the RSC’s Complete Work Festival 2006/7 and recorded by the RSC - with a slightly different cast: see separate entry.
History: Recording of a stage performance at the Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin. Previously, only extracts from the play had been transmitted on the German TV station 3Sat to celebrate the 38. German theatre festival in Berlin (1-24 May 2001). The play premiered June 30, 2000 in Berlin.
Awards: 'Friedrich-Luft-Preis’ for best Berlin production in 2000.
Textual information: Translation by Thomas Brasch.

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Michael Maertens	King Richard II
Katja Danowski	Queen Isabel
Martin Seifert	John of Gaunt
Veit Schubert	Bolingbroke
Maria Happel	Duchess of Gloucester
Alexander Doering
Axel Werner
Boris Jacoby	Bagot
Carmen-Maja Antoni
Dirk Ossig
Goetz Schulte	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Hanna Jürgens
Manfred Karge	Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
Markus Meyer	Duke of Aumerle
Martin Seifert	Bishop of Carlisle
Matthias Herrmann	Bushy
Matthias Herrmann	Lord Willoughby
Michael Rothmann	Thomas Mowbray
Peter Donath
Philippe Graber	Green
Philippe Graber	Gardener
Philippe Graber	Lord Ross

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