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RSC Live: Richard II

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

7.1/ 1020133h 0m

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A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.

Directed by Gregory Doran

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David Tennant

David Tennant

Richard II

Nigel Lindsay

Nigel Lindsay

Henry Bolingbroke

Michael Pennington

Michael Pennington

John of Gaunt

Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Ford Davies

Duke of York

Antony Byrne

Antony Byrne

Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk

Emma Hamilton

Emma Hamilton

The Queen

Oliver Rix

Oliver Rix

Duke of Aumerle

Sean Chapman

Sean Chapman

Earl of Northumberland