![]() ![]() It was, however, adapted for television by the BBC in 1965. There have been a number of epic stagings of Shakespeare’s history plays in recent years including the English Shakespeare Company’s The Wars of the Roses in the late 1980s, a cycle of all the history plays, but this is the first restaging of the Hall-Barton production. Audiences who do go kind of bond and talk about never forgetting it.” ![]() “I do think something extra special happens with that epic dimension. There will be days when audiences can see all three plays from 11am to late evening and Nunn, who directed the RSC’s eight-and-a-half-hour production of Nicholas Nickleby back in 1980, hopes people will take the opportunity. It’s a vital piece of work and we are honoured to bring it afresh to a new generation of theatregoers with tickets starting at just £5.” This production is not by the RSC. He added: “It’s a major event to stage this production, 50 years on from the original incarnation. Robert O’Dowd, the chief executive of the Rose, said it was their “biggest and most ambitious project to date”. The plays, telling the blood-soaked story of the 15th-century conflict between the houses of York and Lancaster for the throne of England, will be staged at Rose Theatre Kingston, an almost-exact replica in south-west London of the Rose theatre on Bankside where they would have been staged in Shakespeare’s time. The Observer’s George Seddon wrote: “It was a stupendous day, even though one emerged from it sagging with physical and emotional exhaustion.” The original productions starred David Warner as Henry VI, Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret of Anjou and Ian Holm as Richard III.īernard Levin, who thought it one of the mightiest stage projects of his time, wrote in the Daily Mail that it was “a production of epic, majestic grandeur, a landmark and a beacon in the post-war English theatre”. ![]() ![]() “It was just one of the most exciting things I have ever witnessed in a theatre,” he said. One of those was Nunn, then a student, who first watched it standing. Audiences who watched them back to back were exhausted but thrilled. With cutting and occasional rewriting it conflates Shakespeare’s Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI into three plays: Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. ![]()
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