LONDON BRIDGE

Nicholas Hytner's "Richard II" is less medieval London, more "Succession" New York.
Long before Richard II ran afoul of mutinous nobles, and almost two centuries before Shakespeare wrote Richard’s portrait in majestic verse, the King took refuge in the Tower. Near the beginning of his reign, when he was only fourteen years old, he retreated there during the Peasants’ Revolt, as enraged farmers beheaded his advisers down below. Now the tragedy “Richard II,” directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring the “Wicked” heartthrob Jonathan Bailey, is at London's Bridge Theatre, right across the Thames from young Richard’s bolt-hole. If his boy self had stood at one of the Tower's high windows long enough—say, for around six hundred and fifty years—he would have looked out at another teeming mob, lining up, still eager to see him die.
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