Haydn Gwynne on the Sam Mendes Richard III
in Actors and Performers, Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
5th September 2011
SHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III
Actor Haydn Gwynne, who plays Queen Elizabeth in Sam Mendes’s Richard III (Old Vic), which also stars Kevin Spacey and is the last of this venue’s The Bridge Project (a three-year cross-Atlantic venture), talks to Heather Neill about the play, which is touring internationally. Recorded at the Old Vic: 31 August 2011.
All the women, despite their differences and their different allegiances, carry the consequences of the war, and of the bloodshed.