Acting
Ron Cook's simmering Richard Plantagenet steals every scene.
Direction
Howell's bare-stage staging makes the violence intimate and brutal.
Production
BBC's toy castle aesthetic that's somehow perfect.
Director
Jane Howell
Peter Benson
King Henry VI
David Burke
Duke of Gloucester / Dick the Butcher
Michael Byrne
John Hume / Lieutenant
Ron Cook
Richard Plantagenet
Julia Foster
Queen Margaret
Bernard Hill
Duke of York
Trevor Peacock
Sheriff / Jack Cade
Mark Wing-Davey
Earl of Warwick
John Benfield
First Murderer / Ship's Master
Anne Carroll
Duchess of Gloucester
Paul Chapman
Earl of Suffolk
Arthur Cox
Thomas Horner / Lord Clifford
David Daker
Duke of Buckingham
Brian Deacon
Duke of Somerset / Smith the Weaver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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