Richard II

Off the success of an initial run at the Golden Goose Theatre earlier this year, Far Between Theatre presents their imaginative production of Shakespeare’s Richard II.

Can a leader lead while remaining true to themselves? Set in a cutthroat corporate nexus, this modern reinterpretation depicts how traditional monarchy has been translated into capitalist dictatorship, which publicly promotes individuality through self-determination while simultaneously vilifying all those individuals with “deviant” identities.

Richard, the young CEO of England Enterprises, is a fickle, hedonistic individual, as equally charming as he is inconstant, playing a precarious balancing act between authenticity and kingship. While the city’s economy suffers and its working class is drained for capital, Richard plays favorites and spends indiscriminately, leaving the empire dangerously unstable and precipitating a desperate struggle. With the walls closing in, survival could mean a choice between power and personal truth. The decisions made inside this glass-walled garden will reverberate for generations.

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