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.
as King Richard II
as John of Gaunt
as Henry Bolingbroke
as Helena Percy, Countess of Northumberland
as Edmund, Duke of York
as Duke of Aumerle
as Lady Scroop
as Harry Percy
as Lord Willoughby
as Lord Ross
as Abbot of Westminster
as Duchess of York
as Sir John Bushy
as Bishop of Carlisle
as Thomas Mowbray
as Sir Justin Green
as Queen Isabel
