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Episode 3: Richard II - And All Our Dreams Will End in Death

Richard II - And All Our Dreams Will End in Death

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By Mike Walker. Patrick Kennedy as Richard II, introducing culture to the English court.

By Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Richard II struggles to introduce culture to a war-based court. With Patrick Kennedy and Blake Ritson.

by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Richard II, having proved his mettle in quelling the Peasants' Revolt, disappoints his courtiers as he pursues peace and culture as an alternative to fighting and swiving.

'Plantagenet' tells the story of the birth of a new Europe after the dark ages. The issues of control, of freedom, of belief, above all, perhaps, the temptations of power which are so familiar to us now were new to an age which had no template for domination on this scale. 

Richard II ..... Patrick Kennedy 
Henry Bolingbroke ..... Blake Ritson
Queen Ann ..... Alex Tregear
Gloucester ..... Peter Polycarpou
John of Gaunt ..... Sean Baker
DeVere ..... James Lailey
Burley ..... Stuart McLoughlin
Tyler ..... Simon Bubb
Walworth ..... Daniel Rabin
John Ball ..... Jonathan Forbes
Joan ..... Claire Harry
Welshman ..... Alun Raglan

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole.

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Series of plays by Mike Walker chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty

Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, chronicling the Plantagenet dynasty

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