One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, “Richard III” was written around 1592 about the final chapter in the Wars of the Roses. With Richard finally having been given an official burial in March after his long-lost body was unearthed and the popularity of the HBO series “Game of Thrones,” which is based on the Wars of the Roses, the time seemed right to revisit the play. The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company last presented “Richard III” a decade ago.
2 in Kingsmen Park on the Thousand Oaks campus of California Lutheran University. July 17 through 19, July 24 through 26, and July 31 through Aug. – June 29, 2015) The 19th season of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival will conclude on a tragic note with “Richard III.” Hudson, and an introduction by Charles Harold Herford.Ross Hellwig is Buckingham, Aidan Kye is young York and Jason McBeth is Richard. This edition includes a biographical afterword, annotations by Henry N. Full of characters who challenge basic concepts of conscience and the fragile relationship of law and fairness, “Henry VI, Part 2” is a substantial Shakespearian work in the midst of an epic cycle of the Bard’s plays. All of this contributes to the War of the Roses, which has already deeply factionalized the English nobility, and ultimately leads to the Battle of St. Richard, the Duke of York, emerges with a claim to the throne, which he uses to gain allies and organize a rebellion by Jack Cade.
There is a large amount of aristocratic subversion in this play, in which the good Duke Humphrey is fatally ensnared. It commences with the marriage of Henry VI with the French noblewoman Margaret of Anjou, whose influence in court is challenged by Duke Humphrey, the King’s Protector. The second play in Shakespeare’s “War of the Roses Tetralogy”, this work continues Shakespeare’s account of King Henry VI’s reign.
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