The Sacred King - Shakespeare's Richard II at Pontefract Castle (2019)

Having been crowned at the age of 10, crushed the Peasant's Revolt, feuded with his powerful uncles, been humiliated by his council and deposed by his own cousin, the former King Richard II finds himself imprisoned at Pontefract Castle. Having fallen from the heights of glorious majesty to the bottom of society, he comes to terms with his own humanity in this final speech of Shakespeare's beautiful play. Experience Shakespeare's moving prison speech at the original historic site at Pontefract Castle and gain a more intimate insight into the king's thoughts than a stage performance would allow.