Richard III review " Shakespeare's supervillain breezes through the bloodbath by Arifa Akbar

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonArthur Hughes is the scheming sociopath in a production of magisterial stagecraft that builds to a powerful climax Arthur Hughes is the first disabled actor to play Shakespeare's supervillain for the RSC. While the text ties the "rudely stamp'd" character's evil nature to his "deformity", Gregory Doran's production goes some way to correcting that false equivalence. This …

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