For a young girl growing up in a Cotswold village, Richard III isn’t exactly an obvious touchstone. And yet, the story of the vilified king resonated with the young Adjoa Andoh, so much that she’s now playing him in a new version of Shakespeare’s play, transferring this week from the Liverpool Playhouse to the Rose Theatre in Kingston.
“I was a bit of an anorak-ey, dweeby history kid; I read a lot of books,” she laughs. Her Liverpudlian mum, a history teacher, loved this play and bought her books about Richard III “which I devoured growing up”.
