Richard II stage footage, Act I, scene 1

Richard: David Tennant Duke of York: Oliver Ford Davies John of Gaunt: Michael Pennington Bolingbroke: Nigel Lindsay Duchess of Gloucester: Jane Lapotaire Director: Gregory Doran Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years. RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran directs David Tennant i