14 OCTOBER – 8 NOVEMBER 2008
BROCKLEY JACK
410 Brockley Road, London, SE4 2DH
www.brockleyjack.co.uk

Catesby ANTHONY ACOSTA
Richmond DANIEL BRISCO
Stanley MATTHEW BURTON
Grey DAMIAN COOPER
Edward, son of Henry VI ADAM DAHROUGE
Hastings RICHARD DELANEY
York DEWI EVANS
Brakenbury CHRISTOPHER FINN
Clarence GARETH FORDRED
Henry VI ALEXANDER GUINEY
Edward IV FILIP KRENUS
Gloucester MARK LEIPACHER
Morton HARRY MACQUEEN
Rivers FINGAL McKIERNAN
Elizabeth DERVAL MELLETT
Buckingham DANIEL MILLAR
Margaret, daughter of Clarence LYDIA OUTHWAITE
Anne KATE SAWYER
Tyrrel TOM SHAW
Ratcliffe ROSS HENRY STEELE
Edward, son of Edward IV JOSH TAYLOR
Shore SONYA TITUS
Dorset TOM VICKERS
Margaret DIANA WALKER
Duchess FIONA WATSON

Director MARK LEIPACHER
Lighting Designer JOSH BARNES
Composer MATT McCORMICK
Stage Manager CASSIE WATTERS
Operator ALESSANDRO MUNARI

A company of 25 actors burst onto the stage at the Brockley Jack Theatre to make Shakespeare’s tale of a deformed tyrant truly epic. The energetic ensemble created everything they needed to tell the story with their own bodies from thrones and tables to towers and horses producing a powerful and highly physical production.

The Faction’s inaugural production received fantastic audience feedback, glowing reviews and played a series of sold out shows during its initial run.

“Brave: that’s one way to describe [this] production of Richard III. More than two dozen actors crowd the black-box theatre’s small stage to recite pretty much the entirety of Shakespeare’s early history play – major cuts are for wimps. There are no props either: when a chair is called for, the players’ bodies create the necessary illusion. Richard’s horse is a splendid human-flesh-and-bones creation, and the seething floor of crawling ghosts is a memorable image of the sort that’s only possible if you’re not averse to having a crowd on stage. This is epic physical theatre.”
- TIME OUT

“an energetic and genuinely dynamic show”
- WHAT’S ON STAGE

“an immediacy that keeps the audience glued to the unfolding plot”
- UK THEATRE WEB

“captivating from start to finish”
- UK THEATRE NET

“could square up against any West End Shakespeare”
- EXTRA! EXTRA!

ALL WEBSITE CONTENT IS COPYRIGHT TO THE FACTION THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED