London Theatre Company are delighted to announce that a brand-new production of Richard II will open 10 February 2025 and run until 10 May 2025 at the Bridge Theatre.
Who’s in the cast?
Award-winning screen and stage actor Jonathan Bailey, Richard II will feature alongside a talented cast to illuminate Shakespeare’s powerful work.
The cast features: Royce Pierreson as Henry Bolingbroke, Christopher Osikanlu Colquhoun as Earl of Northumberland, Olivia Popica as Queen Isabel, Amanda Root as Green and the Duchess of York, Phoenix Di Sebastiani as Thomas Mowbray and Groom, and Clive Wood as John of Gaunt. Returning to the Bridge Theatre is Michael Simkins as the Duke of York.
In addition, the cast includes Adam Best as Sir John Bagot, Seamus Dillane as Lord Surrey, Vinnie Heaven as Aumerle, Jordan Kouamé as Sir John Bushy and Harry Percy, Gerard Monaco as Sir Stephen Scroop and Keeper, George Taylor as Fitzwater, and Badria Timimi as Abbess of Carlisle.
The understudy cast includes Emma Bown, Martin Carroll and Stephan Boyce.
Creative team
Richard II will be designed by Bob Crowley with Lighting Design by Bruno Poet. Lily Dyble is Associate Director and the Casting Director is Robert Sterne.
For the Bridge Theatre, Nicholas Hytner has directed Young Marx; Julius Caesar; Allelujah!; Alys, Always; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Two Ladies; Beat the Devil; The Shrine; Bed Among the Lentils; A Christmas Carol; Bach & Sons; The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage; Straight Line Crazy; The Southbury Child; John Gabriel Borkman; and Guys & Dolls. Previously he was Director of the National Theatre from 2003 to 2015.
What’s the show about?
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent, and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious, and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right to rule but is set on wrecking the country he leads. Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous, and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, in the figure of Henry Bolingbroke, by the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority.
Tickets to RICHARD II
Additional information
Booking until
10 May 2025
Show Times
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
Running Time
2 hrs 40 mins, incl. 20 min interval
Theatre
Bridge Theatre
Age Recommendation
5+
Access Performances
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 12 April at 2.30pm
Captioned Performances: Friday 2 May at 7.30pm
