Richard III review " a beautifully executed spectacle
Lyceum, EdinburghLars Eidinger plays Shakespeare's arch-villain with gleeful, knock-kneed energy in Thomas Ostermeier's productionBernard Shaw famously compared Richard III to a Punch and Judy show. "Richard," he wrote, "is the prince of Punches, he delights Man by provoking God." In Thomas Ostermeier's production for Berlin's Schaubühne theatre, the actor Lars Eidinger is a distinctly puppet-like Richard. He has a …