Richard II A Comedie





Evening Standard
October 18, 2000






ALAN Bates thinks New York audiences are the best in the world, surpassing those in London. "They have an enthusiasm, an observation, a concentration.


You feel the audience participation. They don't feel they are above it all.


They're letting it be what it is, and they like it or they don't." It seems that New York theatregoers can overdo all this, however. Professor Peter Farley of Adelphi University went to a production of Richard II at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with Ralph Fiennes as Richard, and had quite a shock. "Many of those in the seats around me had discovered that Cats had
closed, but were determined to have a good time and stayed anyway," Professor Farley says.


"Taking their cue from Ralph Fiennes's over-the-top, spoiled brat Richard, they began to laugh in the first scenes and didn't quit until near the end.


The performance was regularly interrupted by bursts of laughter, guffaws, squeaks, and knowing, humorous rumbles and moans.


"When Richard said, 'For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground ', hardly the most hilarious line in literature, he set the house in a roar." What, the professor wonders, would the audience have done if the play had been King Lear?





 

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