RSC Live: Richard II

Synopsis

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.

David Tennant

Richard II

Nigel Lindsay

Henry Bolingbroke

Michael Pennington

John of Gaunt

Oliver Ford Davies

Duke of York

Antony Byrne

Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk

Emma Hamilton

The Queen

Oliver Rix

Duke of Aumerle

Sean Chapman

Earl of Northumberland

Jim Hooper

Bishop of Carlisle

Jane Lapotaire

Duchess of Gloucester

Jake Mann

Bagot

Sam Marks

Bushy