Following the iconic all women of colour production of Richard II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse directed by Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton in 2019, Andoh returns with a paler sequel of sorts – playing a darker, more villainous Richard who’ll kill anyone who gets in his way of becoming the King of England. This time Andoa tackling race from a different angle, drawing from her own experience of growing up as a minority in a quintessentially white English village. Usually played as a hunchback, Andoh reimagines Richard’s referenced deformity and otherness – “Poisonous bunch-backed toad!” – through the prism of race.
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