RICHARD III by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE at the LYRIC THEATRE, BELFAST on the 16th of October 2024
RICHARD III by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE at the LYRIC THEATRE, BELFAST on the 16 th of October 2024 The Tragedy of Richard III The Lyric’s new production of Shakespeare’s Richard III announces itself with puerile themes, a bouncy castle, crazy drummers creating diegetic sound, and George, Duke of Clarence, Edward IV’s and Richard’s brother, being led away to incarceration in the Tower of London. He’s dressed in fishnet stockings, later dons a pair of angelic wings, and wears a pair of old-fashioned white underwear. He seems unworried about the grizzly fate that awaits him in a butt of wine. It’s difficult to assess when the play is set and hard to view it as employing anachronism. Richard wears modern clothes, some of the other characters medieval clothes, in other words a confusing clash and mixture of styles as if the director could not settle on a definite vision of the play or establish a coherent conceit. Charlotte McCurry as Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth appears wearin