Cambridge Shakespeare Festival

Richard II

"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings"

29 July - 24 August 2024
Every evening (except Sunday) at 7.30pm Trinity College Gardens
(entrance via Queen's Road only)

Richard II is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choice of counsellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far... This production reflects the play’s intense psychological struggle as well as a taut political drama.

No knee-bending to trendy revisionism, but rather a tour-de-force of Elizabethan drama —The Times