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Dateline: 30th January, 2004 New Play Takes a Fresh Look at Dick Crookback A new play by 21-year old American playwright Bobby Fishkin takes a fresh look at England's most maligned king, Richard III. Entitled simply Richard III, the new play runs from 12th to 14th February at London's Bloomsbury Theatre. It will be directed by Fishkin and Harry Brunjes, and will be co-directed by Marcus Plowright & Julia Burbach, with a cast of 75, made up of professionals and students. "Richard III has generated tremendous interest in the years following his death," says Fishkin, "and Shakespeare's Richard III is said to have been performed more than any other of his plays. However it is grossly inaccurate from a historical standpoint. Historians are unsure of many elements in the story of Richard III, but even what little they do know for certain sharply contradicts much of Shakespeare's play. "While we know Shakespeare's play was wrong in certain ways, there are many aspects of the story of the real Richard III that are lost to history. Thus rather than simply settling the most important of these questions in an arbitrary way in the play, I have brought the controversy inside by stretching the theatrical medium through which the story is being dramatized. Furthermore, in order to communicate some of the complexities in the story more elegantly and efficiently, I've incorporated significant elements of cinema and absurdist theatre into the fabric of the play". This is Fishkin's sedond play. His first, a one-acter entitled Mocha Latte or Cookie Dough, won the Texas Young Playwrights Festival in 1998 and went on to be produced off-Broadway. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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