The place and when?
London Theatre Firm are delighted to announce {that a} brand-new manufacturing of Richard II will open 10 February 2025 and run till 10 Might 2025 on the Bridge Theatre.
Guys & Dolls is enjoying on the Bridge Theatre till 04 January 2025.
Who’s within the solid?
Directed by Nicholas Hytner, Jonathan Bailey will star within the title position.
The Award-winning stage and display screen actor shot to international fame as Lord Anthony within the widespread interval drama Bridgerton. He has not too long ago starred within the critically acclaimed Showtime sequence Fellow Vacationers. Bailey will play the lead love curiosity of Fiyero within the extremely anticipated Depraved movie which can have its theatrical launch later this 12 months and is presently in manufacturing on Jurassic World, main the movie alongside Scarlett Johansson. His prolific and acclaimed stage profession consists of enjoying Edgar to Ian McKellen’s King Lear and successful an Olivier Award for his portrayal of Jamie in Firm.
Artistic group
Richard II will likely be designed by Bob Crowley (for The Bridge: Straight Line Loopy; The Guide of Mud – La Belle Sauvage; within the West Finish: Olivier Award-winning An American in Paris) with Lighting Design by Bruno Poet (for The Bridge: Julius Caesar; A Midsummer Night time’s Dream; within the West Finish: Tina – The Tina Turner Musical). Lily Dyble is Affiliate Director and the Casting Director is Robert Sterne (for The Bridge: Straight Line Loopy; The Southbury Baby; for display screen: Sport of Thrones; The Crown).
For the Bridge Theatre, Nicholas Hytner has directed Younger Marx; Julius Caesar; Allelujah!; Alys, At all times; A Midsummer Night time’s Dream; Two Women; Beat the Satan; The Shrine; Mattress Among the many Lentils; A Christmas Carol; Bach & Sons; The Guide of Mud – La Belle Sauvage; Straight Line Loopy; The Southbury Baby; John Gabriel Borkman; and Guys & Dolls. Beforehand he was Director of the Nationwide Theatre from 2003 to 2015.
What’s the present about?
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent, and cherished by his buddies. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious, and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial downside: easy methods to take care of a ruler who has a rock strong proper to rule however is about on wrecking the nation he leads. Shakespeare’s refined, ambiguous, and exquisite play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, within the determine of Henry Bolingbroke, by the hard-headed pragmatism of actual authority.
Assisted performances
Audio Described & Contact Tour: Saturday 12 April at 2.30pm
Captioned Performances: Friday 2 Might at 7.30pm
