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 Ju…
Lyceum, EdinburghLars Eidinger is a monstrously watchable Richard " played like a seductive rock star gone to seed " in Thomas Ostermeier's mesmerising productionThe storm clouds gather over…
The Almeida will broadcast Artistic Director Rupert Goold's production of RICHARD III, with Ralph Fiennes as Shakespeare's most notorious villain and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret, live…
Actor, currently playing Shakespeare's villainous king, says Brexit has brought the Bard's historical play a newfound pertinenceIt is a story of vaulting ambition and ruthless scheming which…
A MORE CASUAL CRUELTY Richard III, the final play of eight of Shakespeare's histories, has also been an ever-popular play. It offers one of the most coldblooded characters in all of literatu…
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss Ralph Fiennes in Richard III at the Almeida, Mike Bartlett's test play Wild at Hampstead and the stage version of Sideways at St James Theatre.
Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.
Ralph Fiennes' Richard III Eyes New York Transfer
There’ll be no need for discontent if this happens! The Almeida…
The Almeida'sproduction of RICHARD III, with Ralph Fiennes as Shakespeare's most notorious villain and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret, is likely headed to the West End, and possibly the …
Rupert Goold's production of Richard III is bookended by the discovery of Richard's remains in a Leicester car park in 2012. We see the scientific excavation and we hear the news report echo…
It's a glorious summer of Richard IIIs with Ralph Fiennes playing the role at the Almeida in London and Lars Eidinger starring in the Schaubühne's production at the Edinburgh festival. Here…
Almeida theatre, London N1Ralph Fiennes is a masterly, transfixing Richard, while Vanessa Redgrave curses with quiet convictionHe seduces like a basilisk. Sheer force of self-belief concentr…
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES IS CHILLED, THRILLED, DAZZLED Ralph Fiennes is a menace. An utter menace. Other actors beware. He will cheat, stab and simply out-act you right off th…
Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave star in Rupert Goold's production of Shakespeare's play about the notorious villain king. It runs until 6 August 2016. But how have critics reacted to the …
Ralph Fiennes gets the hump as Shakespeare's nastiest villain, with support from Vanessa Redgrave as a queen driven mad by grief in this latest production from director Rupert Goold. read mo…
"I can add colours to the chameleon," Richard III remarks of himself early in his anguished, marauding ascent to the throne, and the description could equally apply to the electrifying actor…
