I don't know what I was expecting when I turned up to the Playhouse to see Richard III.
I had this idea it would be classic Shakespeare, and I'd spend the whole time a little behind because I'd be trying to understand what the well-spoken characters just said and worrying if I missed something I'd have (literally) lost the plot. So I was a little cautious when I took my seat at the theatre to see how director and actor Adjoa Andoh (who you might know from Netflix's Bridgerton) had brought the play to life.
I've not read Richard III, so I can't tell you how true to the play this production was. But Adjoa's Richard III had all the prestige and talent I would expect from any performance of a play written by a man whose talents are still to be rivalled more than 400 years on.
