Details:
The Theatre National de Luxembourg (TNL) is putting on a 6-performace production of Richard II at the Theatre National de Luxembourg (194 rte de Longwy, L-1940 Luxembourg), in the two weeks after Easter 2022.
The performances will take place on Saturday 23, Wednesday 27 & Thursday 28 April at 20:00, and also on Sunday 24 April at 17:00 as well as Tuesday 3 & Wednesday 4 May at 20:00.
Richard II is one of William Shakespeare’s history plays, written and published around 1595, about the last two years of Richard II’s reign and how he was deposed by Henry IV, imprisoned and murdered. It vividly depicts the dramatic struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, shows a kingdom between worlds. Richard is the legitimate king, a monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness, seen by many as a player, a gambler, a wasteful tyrant. A hollow king. He toys with his subjects, exiling Bolingbroke for six years. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the people of England and drag his country into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Directed by Anne Simon who tells the story of Richard II - a story of power, plotting and abuse. This is a drama about the cynical destruction of basic family values and principles for selfish purposes.
Reservations: luxembourgticket.lu or tel: 470895-1.
For more information, see https://www.tnl.lu/richard-ii
Venue: Theatre National de Luxembourg (194 rte de Longwy, L-1940 Luxembourg)
Organiser: TNL
Price: €20
Reservations: see above
