The RCI Digital Stage Presents: RICHARD III by William Shakespeare
Wed, Dec 02
|Online event
Shakespeare’s bloodiest play, directed by Gabor Tompa
Time & Location
Dec 02, 2020, 8:00 PM – 10:45 PM
Online event
About The Event
The greatest villain in literary history climbs The RCI Digital Stage in director Gábor Tompa’s forceful, haunting staging of Shakespeare’s classic dissection of monstruous ambition and insatiable lust for power. Produced by The Hungarian Theater of Cluj together with Gyula Castle Theatre, directed with characteristic visionary assurance and performed with supreme skill by one of Romania’s best theatrical ensembles, this Richard III becomes the bloody spectacle of contemporary follies.
Facebook premiere on Wednesday, December 2 at 8 p.m. New York & Toronto time / 5 p.m. Los Angeles & Vancouver time. The recording will remain available on our page for 24 hours. (Please follow the link to watch.)
“Shakespeare’s bloodiest play is, paradoxically, also his most performed. The nightmare of power mania seems to be a constant of European culture, and is represented in theatre history in an immense variety, but probably never as tenebrously as in Richard III. Even…