Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton co-direct a women of colour cast in a post Empire reflection on what it means to be British in the light of the Windrush anniversary and as we prepare to leave the European Union on 29 March. As we play our part in defining a nation’s history and we become the shoulders on which future generations will stand, Shakespeare asks us to consider the destiny that we might be shaping for our ‘scepter’d isle’.

SYNOPSIS:

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 Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton

Cast: Adjoa Andoh, Dona Croll, Shobna Gulati, Ayesha Dharker, Indra Ové, Lourdes Faberes, Leila Farzad, Sarah Lam, Sarah Niles, Nicholle Cherrie

Show Times: Vary, see website

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