Richard II

Name: Richard II
Director: Jillian Keiley
Released: 2024-01-27
Duration: 139 min
Cast: Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, David Collins, Jordin Hall, Sarah Orenstein, Michael Spencer-Davis

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2024 · 139 min

Overview

In a revolutionary adaptation by Brad Fraser, this Richard is the story of a king who believes that God gives him the right to live above the rules and who ultimately suffers the consequences. The story is embedded in a time of great freedom that is soon crushed - the late 1970s and early '80s: when lives were lived at great volume against a suffocating strain of conservatism and fear. Fraser's adaptation maintains Shakespeare's text but draws on sources beyond Richard II.

Directed by Jillian Keiley

Cast

Stephen Jackman-Torkoff — King Richard II
David Collins — John of Gaunt
Jordin Hall — Henry Bolingbroke
Sarah Orenstein — Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland
Michael Spencer-Davis — Edmund, Duke of York