Richard II
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 20, 2011
Closed Dec 24, 2011
Opened Nov 20, 2011
Closed Dec 24, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
If you tear down a world, what do you build?
If the thing you were born to be is ripped away, what do you become?
Corruption, ambition, and greed stalk the nation--and threaten to destroy its future. In Richard II, Shakespeare chronicles the shattering fall of one king and the meteoric rise of another in a raw and powerful tale of a country--and a soul--in chaos.
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The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Richard II, now at City Center Stage II, is so well acted -- with credit equally due to director J. R. Sullivan -- that even as it unfolds with enviable lucidity, it promises hope that the troupe may someday similarly illuminate other fabled Shakespearean plays.
Rarely included among the Bard's masterworks, the history play is nevertheless mighty appealing for several reasons. The first is its portrait of the titular late 14th-century's monarch (Sean McNall), whose foolishly arrogant sense of divine right causes him to come to realize only slowly his standing as no more nor less than a mere mortal.
All the while, he speaks some of the most st[...]