These are intimate workshops exploring the plays with an eye toward future full productions. Staging will be in-the-round with actors working script-in-hand.

SYNOPSIS:

Richard II, Shakespeare’s prequel to Henry IV, is the story of the impulsive, willful, petulant, King Richard, who is deposed by the strong-willed and politically savvy Henry Bolingbroke. This powerful and popular work, written entirely in verse, is renowned for its vivid language. The play introduces questions of usurpation, legitimacy, and the divine right of kings that will launch England on the road to civil war. Richard II alternates with Dakin Matthews’s adaptation Henry IV, a much-celebrated condensation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2—about Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign—into one a single three-act, three-and-a-half-hour play.

Directed by Eric Tucker

Cast Includes Christian Camargo