DruidShakespeare: Richard III
DruidShakespeare: Richard III
Closed 3h 0m NYC: Upper W Side
87% 43 reviews
87%
(43 Ratings)
Positive
98%
Mixed
2%
Negative
0%
Members say
Great acting, Great staging, Absorbing, Masterful, Riveting

About the Show

Part of the White Light Festival, Lincoln Center presents Ireland's Druid Theater Company's darkly comic take on Shakespeare's history.

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Critic Reviews (5)

The New York Times
November 10th, 2019

"All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’: Garry Hynes’s visually hypnotic interpretation of the tale of the crookback who would be king sees medieval England as a cold slaughterhouse."
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BroadwayWorld
November 14th, 2019

"'DRUIDSHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III' Beguiles and Seduces at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival"
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Lighting & Sound America
November 13th, 2019

"In Monaghan's interpretation, [Richard] is a startlingly original villain, an expert seducer whose first conquest is the audience…Garry Hynes' staging has a fine appreciation of the unhealed wounds lying underneath England's seemingly placid exterior."
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New York Stage Review
November 14th, 2019

4/5 stars "One question this excellent production could be asking is whether the preternaturally evil Richard loses his kingdom not because he lacks a horse but because he's lost his sense of humor."
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Theater News Online
November 16th, 2019

"Garry Hynes stages the Shakespearean melodrama with fresh inspiration and freedom."
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