RSC Live: Richard II (2013)

Drama · History

Overview

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.

Cast

• David Tennant as Richard II
• Nigel Lindsay as Henry Bolingbroke
• Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt
• Oliver Ford Davies as Duke of York
• Antony Byrne as Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk
• Emma Hamilton as The Queen
• Oliver Rix as Duke of Aumerle
• Sean Chapman as Earl of Northumberland
• Jim Hooper as Bishop of Carlisle
• Jane Lapotaire as Duchess of Gloucester

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