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RICHARD III

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by William Shakespeare

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Directed by Gillian Daly

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To be performed at St. Dunstan's College Theatre

Stanstead Road, Catford, SE6 4TY

Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 October, 7.30pm
Saturday 31 October, 2.30 & 7.30pm
 

Richard: uniquely evil or unfairly condemned? All-controlling supervillain or tortured, fallible man, fighting to save the York dynasty? How do we reconcile the bard’s devastating portrayal with historical reality, using the power of his words to put Richard into his context in a world of menace and paranoia? We are trying to put Richard back into his context: A long period of bloody warfare, cousin against cousin. His brother, Edward IV’s imprudent marriage that led to the prospect of yet another child king and the inevitability of conflict between rival factions. And at the heart a man conflicted. Neither good nor evil, but human. We keep Shakespeare’s excoriating words of condemnation. We keep his ‘confessions’ of guilt. But we try to show him, and those around him, in a slightly different light. Fallible, power-hungry and conflicted, but also loyal, courageous and suffering.

 

"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones."

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BEAUTY & THE BEAST

By

Laurence Boswell
Directed by

Jan Rae

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To be performed at Longfield Hall, Camberwell SE5

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Wednesday 16th December until Saturday 19th December, 7:30pm

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This adaptation, first performed at the Young Vic in 1996, draws on the origns of the tale in French folklore, and is filled with music, dance and song. 

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