If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Coming in January 2009
RICHARD III
directed by Colin Cox
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York...
Performance Dates & Times:
ONE WEEK ONLY!
Wed - Fri @ 10:30am Jan 27-30
Sat, Jan 31@ 7:00pm
Reservations:
Call 323.461.0093
Tickets:
General Admission: $15
Students, Senior & Military ID: $10
Staff accompanying students for morning matinees: Free
About the Play:
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England.[1]While generally classified as a history, as grouped in the First Folio, the play is sometimes called a tragedy (as in the first quarto). It picks up the story from Henry VI, Part 3 and concludes the historical series that stretches back to Richard II. After Hamlet, it is Shakespeare's second longest play and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of Hamlet is shorter than the Quarto version. The length is generally seen as a drawback, for which reason it is rarely performed unabridged. It is often shortened by cutting peripheral characters.
Another reason for editing is that Shakespeare assumed that his audiences would be familiar with the Henry VI plays, and frequently made indirect references to events in them, such as Richard's murder of Henry VI or the defeat of Henry's queen Margaret. Nowadays the previous plays are less well-known, so the character of Margaret is often cut and extra lines are sometimes invented or added from the trilogy to explain the characters' relationships.
Source: Wikipedia
