Richard II
Overview of the production
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent, and flamboyantly witty. And a
disastrous King– dishonest, dangerous, 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, caustic, and powerful play revolves round two startlingly modern figures: Richard, an autocrat who believes he is divinely sanctioned, and Henry Bullingbrook, a hard-headed pragmatist who has genuine authority.
Richard II is played by Jonathan Bailey, whose past work includes Bridgerton, Fellow Travellers, Cassio in Nicholas Hytner’s National Theatre production of Othello and Edgar to Ian McKellen’s King Lear. He has also won an Olivier Award for his role of Jamie in Company and is Fiyero in the Wicked movie.
Image credits: Photography Jason Bell, Creative Muse Creative Communications
General Information
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Performance schedule
Monday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Thursday & Saturday: 2.30pm
Access Performances
Audio Described & Touch Tour: Saturday 12 April at 2.30pm
Captioned: Friday 2 May at 7.30pm
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Schools Rate
Tue, Wed & Thu matinees performances at £25 each, with 1 free teacher for every 10 pupils. Bands A–C, excludes premium tickets. Minimum of 10 tickets
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Groups of 10+
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Cast
Jonathan Bailey
Jonathan Bailey is a critically acclaimed actor across film, television, and theatre.
THEATRE includes South Downs double bill with The Browning Version at Chichester Festival Theatre and the Harold Pinter Theatre; American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre; Cassio in Othello at the National Theatre; The Last Five Years at The Other Palace; Certain Young Men at the National Theatre; The York Realist at the Donmar Warehouse and Cock at the Ambassadors Theatre. He won an Olivier award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his portrayal of Jamie in Company.
TELEVISION includes the Golden Globe nominated series Fellow Travelers which earned him a Critics Choice Award; and Anthony Bridgerton in the record-breaking Netflix series Bridgerton. Other television credits include Broadchurch for ITV; Chewing Gum for BBC One and Crashing for Channel 4.
FILM includes Fiyero in Universal’s highly anticipated Wicked. Jonathan will next be seen in the 4th instalment of the Jurassic World series. Other film credits include The Mercy.
December 2024
Adam Best
TRAINING Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
THEATRE includes, recently, playing Macbeth in Macbeth (An Undoing) at the Lyceum, Edinburgh, Rose Kingston, and Theatre for a New Audience, New York; Cyrano de Bergerac for the Jamie Lloyd Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Lyric Hammersmith and Chichester Festival Theatre; The Duchess of Malfi at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and Citizens Glasgow; Twelfth Night at the National Theatre; and Lions and Tigers at Shakespeare’s Globe.
TELEVISION & FILM include recently Black Doves, All Creatures Great and Small, Say Nothing, Kneecap, Blue Lights, The Crown, The Lazarus Project, Peaky Blinders and Giri / Haji.
November 2024
Stephan Boyce
TRAINING LAMDA and Urdang Academy.
THEATRE includes Hair on tour in Germany; Christmas Actually at the Southbank Centre; Aladdin at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Hound of the Baskervilles for Lost Estate; The Coloured Valentino at the Arcola; and A Christmas Carol at Southend Palace. He is also a regular host of Hip Hop Bingo.
TELEVISION & VOICE WORK includes The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight; Go Go Corey Carson; The Cook of Castamar; and the video game Dead Island 2.
November 2024
Emma Bown
TRAINING University of Bristol and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
THEATRE includes My Beautiful Laundrette at Curve Leicester; The Crown Jewels, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Labour of Love, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, McQueen, Hay Fever, Di and Viv and Rose and The BFG, all in the West End; Seduced at the White Bear; What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband at the Arcola Studio; The Love Child for Red Shift; and Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Original Shakespeare Company.
FILM & TELEVISION include Bob Marley: One Love, Emmerdale, Sex Education, The Last Bus, To the Grave, De Sul, and The Retreat.
RADIO includes Strangers and Brothers.
December 2024
Martin Carroll
THEATRE includes Fisherman’s Friends – the Musical on UK and Canada tour; Twelfth Night and Richard III for Shakespeare’s Globe at the Apollo; The Royal Hunt of the Sun, The Oresteia, Translations and On the Razzle at the National Theatre; UK tours of Birdsong, The Cat and the Canary, The Lady Vanishes and Rehearsal for Murder; Catch Me If You Can for Windsor Theatre Royal; Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and the title roles in Trials of Charles Dickens and Macbeth for Dickens Theatre Company; Dracula at Sentosa World Resort, Singapore; Black Coffee, Murder on Air, Verdict and Larkrise to Candleford for Agatha Christie Theatre Company & Bill Kenwright; The Weir at the Haymarket, Basingstoke; and Dad’s Army and ‘Allo ‘Allo! on UK tours and at The Lowry Manchester. Other theatre includes Macbeth, Othello, Measure for Measure, Hamlet and Doctor Faustus; as well as UK tours of The King and I, The Hobbit, A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Little Shop of Horrors and The Rocky Horror Show.
TELEVISION includes The House of Guinness, The Gold, The Confession, The Angel of Darkness, The Bill, Silent Witness, Harry & Cosh, The Alleyn Mysteries, Shergar – The Big Gamble, Monster Maker, Johnny Jarvis, Minder, The Cleopatras and Joyce in June.
FILM includes Bad Apples, War of Birds, The Little Stranger, World War Z, One Careful Owner, Intolerable Redemption, Little Shop of Horrors, How to Survive the End of the World and Perfect State.
November 2024
Phoenix Di Sebastiani
TRAINING RADA.
THEATRE includes, while training, Macbeth, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Mysterious Bruises and As You Like It.
TELEVISION includes The Great, Top Boy and Anne Boleyn.
November 2024
Seamus Dillane
TRAINING The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
THEATRE includes The Invention of Love at Hampstead; The Outrun for Edinburgh Lyceum/Edinburgh International Festival; The Girls of Slender Means for Edinburgh Lyceum; Coriolanus and Faustus That Damned Woman at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Mosquito for OffMainStage; Lone Star Diner at Omnibus Theatre; and The Seagull and Norway Today for The Barebones Project.
FILM includes The Outrun; and the short films Four Seconds Flat and Office Song.
TELEVISION includes Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story and Doctors.
November 2024
Vinnie Heaven
THEATRE includes, most recently, Cowbois for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court. Other theatre includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Misfortune of the English at the Orange Tree, Richmond; Malory Towers for Wise Children; Living Newspaper at the Royal Court; and Cuckoo at Soho Theatre.
TELEVISION includes The Nevers and A Month of Sundays.
FILM includes MO <3 KYRA.
WRITING includes Faun for Cardboard Citizens and She’s a Good Boy for Strike a Light, Pegasus, and BAC.
November 2024
Jordan Kouamé
TRAINING RADA.
THEATRE includes The Mirror and the Light for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
TELEVISION includes Malpractice series 1 & 2, Wolf Hall 2: The Mirror and the Light, and Dope Girls.
FILM includes Scoop and the short film Delivery.
November 2024
Gerard Monaco
TRAINING RADA.
THEATRE includes A Small Family Business, Children of the Sun, The Kitchen, Mother Courage and Her Children, Her Naked Skin and The Rose Tattoo at the National Theatre; 55 Days at Hampstead Theatre; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at West Yorkshire Playhouse; House of Special Purpose at Chichester Festival Theatre; A View from the Bridge in the West End; Three Sisters On Hope Street at Liverpool Everyman / Hampstead Theatre; The Ladykillers at the Northcott, Exeter; Albert’s Boy for Wild Card; Biloxi Boy at the Jerwood; How I Got That Story for Whore’s Oath; and Pool Death at Salisbury Playhouse.
TELEVISION includes Talamasca, Bladerunner 2099, Suspect, Eric, 3-Body Problem, The Capture, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Box, Domina, Harlots (Series 1–3), White Gold (Series 1–2), The Child in Time, Britannia, Prime Suspect 1973, Lucky Man, Utopia (Series 1–2), Silk, Any Human Heart, Episodes, Ashes to Ashes, Trial and Retribution, The Passion, Honest, Little Miss Jocelyn, The Hindenburg: Titanic Of The Skies, EastEnders, Rome, Beneath The Waves, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and As If.
FILM includes Blitz, Lift, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, Holmes and Watson, Point Break, The Counselor, 360, Pirates of the Caribbean IV, Bright Star, Starter For Ten and Vera Drake.
November 2024
Christopher Osikanlu Colquhoun
THEATRE includes The Doctor for ATG at Duke of York’s Theatre and Park Avenue Armoury, New York; One Night in Miami at Nottingham Playhouse; Mary Stuart for Fiery Angel at Duke of York’s Theatre; Yellowman at the Young Vic; The Lion King in the West End; The Believers for Frantic Assembly; The Colour Purple at the Menier Chocolate Factory; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park; Britannicus at Wilton’s Music Hall; Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe; Macbeth, Three Sisters, Snake in the Fridge and The Way of the World at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; The Thief of Baghdad at the Royal Opera House; Saint Joan at the National Theatre; The Comedy of Errors, Moby Dick, King Lear, The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Simply Heavenly in the West End; Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Derby Playhouse; Angels in America at Sheffield Crucible; and Disfunction in My Bungalow at Theatr Clwyd.
TELEVISION includes Love Story, Cold Water, Patience, The Man Who Fell to Earth, This Time, Absentia, Ransom, Vera, Fleabag, Midsomer Murders, Flowers, Law and Order, The Crash, Missing, Coronation Street, The Bill, Belonging, Wire in the Blood, Casualty, North Square, Silent Witness, London Bridge, Band of Gold, and Shakespeare Shorts.
FILM includes My Sister’s Bones, iBoy, and Oh Happy Day.
November 2024
Royce Pierreson
TRAINING Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
THEATRE includes Three Days In The Country at National Theatre, and Julius Caesar at Sheffield Crucible.
TELEVISION includes The Witcher, I Am Ruth, The Lazarus Project, The Irregulars (as Dr Watson), Wanderlust, Line of Duty, and Murdered by My Boyfriend.
FILM includes Judy.
November 2024
Olivia Popica
FILM & TELEVISION include the recently completed film The Yellow Tie and the fantasy series The Wheel of Time. She also plays DI Hobbs in Liaison, stars in the feature film Never Back Down, and was recently seen in the series Informer, and the film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Other TV appearances include Victoria, Riviera, Tyrant and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
December 2024
Amanda Root
THEATRE Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Nina in The Seagull, Some Americans Abroad, The Man of Mode, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, and Nina in The Seagull, all for the Royal Shakespeare Company; The House of Bernarda Alba at the Lyric Hammersmith; King Lear, Conversations After a Burial and Enemies at the Almeida; The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic and on Broadway (Tony Award nomination for best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play), Hester in The Deep Blue Sea, and The Chalk Garden, Chichester Festival Theatre, Jumpy Duke of Yorks, The Herd Bush Theatre, The Country (Arcola Theatre) Donkey Heart (Trafalgar Studios) and Racing Demon at the Theatre Royal, Bath.
TELEVISION includes Mary Rose, The House of Bernarda Alba, Buddha of Suburbia, Big Cat, Breaking the Code, Anna Karenina, The Forsyte Saga, Daniel Deronda, Foyle’s War, Mortimer’s Law, Love on a Branch Line, Little Britain, Love Again, The Robinsons, The Impressionists, Poirot, Patrick Melrose, Unforgotten, Silent Witness, The Sixth Commandment (series regular), Baby Reindeer, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, and Lazarus.
FILM includes Persuasion, Jayne Eyre, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith, The Black Prince, The Iron Lady, Summerland, Their Finest, and Allelujah.
November 2024
Michael Simkins
THEATRE includes Guys & Dolls and John Gabriel Borkman at The Bridge; Backstairs Billy at the Duke of York’s; The Unfriend (also at the Criterion), Fracked, and Yes Prime Minister (also Trafalgar Studios and UK tour) at Chichester Festival Theatre; Candida and Taking Steps at the Orange Tree, Richmond; Eden, The Argument and Loyalty at Hampstead; The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich for the Royal Shakespeare Company; Dessert at Southwark Playhouse; Good Canary at the Rose Kingston; Oh What a Lovely War at Stratford East; Less Than Kind at Jermyn Street; and King Lear, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, A View from the Bridge, , A Small Family Business and Tons of Money at the National Theatre. Also in the West End: Hay Fever, Chicago, Donkey’s Years, Mary Stuart, The Old Masters, Democracy, Mamma Mia, Richard III, Company (from the Donmar Warehouse), Burn This, Look Look, Henceforward and The Scarlet Pimpernel (from Chichester).
TELEVISION includes Ellis, Father Brown, Miss Scarlet and the Duke, This is Going to Hurt, Finding Alice, The Crown, Silent Witness, White House Farm, Endeavour, Harlots, Grantchester, EastEnders, A Touch of Cloth, Above Suspicion, Minder, Lewis, New Tricks, Green Wing, Midsomer Murders, My Family, Foyle’s War, and King Lear.
FILM includes Greed, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, The Iron Lady, V for Vendetta, Topsy-Turvy, Wilde, and Heidi.
Also an author, journalist and broadcaster, his BOOKS include the best-selling theatrical autobiography What’s My Motivation and the Costa-nominated sporting memoir Fatty Batter.
November 2024
George Taylor
TRAINING Drama Centre.
THEATRE includes Cleansed and A Woman Killed with Kindness at the National Theatre; Death of a Salesman at Royal & Derngate and The Trial of Ubu and The Moderate Soprano at Hampstead Theatre.
TELEVISION includes, recently, Outrageous, SAS: Rogue Heroes, A Spy Among Friends, The Veil, The Capture, The Gold, Wanderlust, Howards End, Loaded and X Company.
FILM includes The Woman Clothed by the Sun, Rye Lane, The Lady in the Van, Everest, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, You & I and Resistance.
November 2024
Badria Timimi
TRAINING Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
THEATRE includes Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe; My Brilliant Friend at the National Theatre and Rose Kingston; Told from the Inside, Birth of a Nation and The Eleventh Minute at the Royal Court; Feed the Beast at Birmingham Rep and New Wolsey, Ipswich; Subterranean Sepoys for National Theatre Platforms and Tara Arts; Titus Andronicus, A Mad World My Masters and Candide for the Royal Shakespeare Company; The House of Bernarda Alba at the Almeida; Tales from the Harrow Road at the Soho; The War Next Door at the Tricycle; 1001 Nights Now for Northern Stage; The Maids at Alma Tavern / Latvia International Festival; and The Shagaround at the Nuffield Southampton.
TELEVISION includes Strike: The Ink Black Heart, You Don’t Know Me, Traces, Our Girl, Trigonometry, Carnival Row, Father Brown, Unforgotten, EastEnders, DCI Banks, Killing Jesus, Drifters, Whitechapel, Law & Order, The Shadow Line, The Little House,, Holby City, The Fixer, Generation Kill, The House of Saddam, The Bill, Trial and Retribution, Prime Suspect, Secret Smile, Silent Witness, Afterlife, Murder Prevention, Spooks, The Grid, Messiah, Walking with Cavemen, Casualty, Cold Feet.
FILM includes Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Pusher and Syriana
Clive Wood
THEATRE includes The Promise at Chichester Festival Theatre; Antony and Cleopatra (as Antony) at Shakespeare’s Globe; The Dumb Waiter at The Print Room; King Lear and Filumena at the Almeida; The Tempest and Flare Path at Theatre Royal Haymarket; One Life and Counting at the Bush; and many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Henry IV Parts 1 & 2; Henry VI Parts 1, 2 & 3; Richard II, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Hamlet, Pontius Pilate, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, A Patriot for Me, The Wives’ Excuse, and Twelfth Night.
TELEVISION includes Casualty, Sense8, Father Brown, In the Dark, Wallander, Midsomer Murders, Utopia, Endeavour, The Bible, Without You, Waking the Dead, Land Girls, The Pillars of the Earth, Eleventh Hour, A Touch of Frost, Dunkirk, The Lion in Winter, Death in Holy Orders, Holby City, London’s Burning, A Globusz, Bonkers and Minder.
FILM includes Buster, Treasure Island, Red Mercury, The Innocent, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Crucifer of Blood, Suffragette and All the Money in the World.
Clive is an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
November 2024