Richard II – The Libra Theatre Café
Shakespeare’s Richard II is the inspiration for The Whole Pack Theatre Company’s pared back version of the bard’s history play. In a brief summary of the play – the play covers the last two years of King Richard II’s life 1398-1400. The play begins with King Richard (Jessamy James) presiding over a dispute between nobles, in which Richard decides that the matter should be settled by ‘trial by combat.’ In a last-minute decision by King Richard, he instead, decides to banish both men from England. Bolingbroke (Lydia Shaw), is allowed to return to England early, but the suspicion that King Richard may have had a role in the death of the Duke of Gloucester, will not go away. Richard leaves England to join the war in Ireland but leaves himself exposed to treachery ...