Steven Berkoff was asked to direct Shakespeare's Richard II in New
York early 1994. It was a project he found fascinating: performing
an Elizabethan play within the scrapers of Manhattan and the still
rotting slums of the Lower East Side, between the steaming breath
oozing out from the cracked pipes and the brutality of modern New
York speak. New York became the backdrop and the energy centre
which charged him each day and fed his inspiration. This book
offers a wonderful insight into the many characters, challenges and
places that were integral to the project and details how gradually
the production took form. Served by a first-rate company that
worked incredibly hard, the achievement was a critically acclaimed
production and the fulfilment of a personal goal to direct the
Bard. NEW YORK POST This morning I have joy to report - so let the
trumpets sound and the canons roar Last night at the Anspacher
Auditorium of the Joseph Papp Public Theater, there opened a
production of The Tragedy of Richard II which can hold its own with
the world's best in Shakespearean stagings. NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES
The Tragedy of Richard II now being given an exceptionally stylish
production by Steven Berkoff. Mr Berkoff's production, which, among
many virtues, is so well and clearly spoken and so clean of
dramatic line that it's accessible from start to finish... THE
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER NEW YORK - They'll be talking about this
Richard II for years.
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