Richard III.

What you see on the outside is not what you get on the inside. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, may be a younger brother with a hump back and a club foot - but he intends to be King. He may strike a comic, perhaps at times even a ridiculous figure - but underneath he is completely unscrupulous political operator, prepared to sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve his ultimate goal.

Staffan Valdemar Holm continues his collaboration with the new Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ensemble and his examination of the relationship between theatricality and power in this new production of the final tragedy of Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses cycle, whose protagonist is one of the most fascinating and contradictory characters in the dramatic repertoire.