Richard II is eloquent, charismatic, and loved by his friends. He is also a disastrous King – politically incompetent, capricious, and dishonest.
It's a perennial problem that has echoed down the centuries: how to deal with a ruler who seems set on wrecking the country he leads but who has a rock-solid right to rule?
Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) stars as Richard II at the Bridge Theatre in Shakespeare’s ambiguous, subtle, and beautiful play that finds feudal England on the very cusp of modernity, as its divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, by Henry Bolingbroke, and the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority.