RICHARD III

The battle scars from the civil war are yet to heal, but that’s not going to deter power-hungry Richard. The crown should be his and no one is going to stop him from getting it: not the King, his own wife, or the Princes in the Tower.

The second of two shows acted by the same ensemble in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe. Two shows about an England diseased and fractured under empty skies – and the monsters bred by chaos. 

A semi-permanent Globe company of actors is a great idea that’s not really worked before because, frankly, they’ve not had good directors. Now they’ve got them. See these plays together, see them separately, but do try and see them, because this is the ensemble finally firing on all cylinders in an epic and exciting six hours of storytelling.

– TIME OUT