With an explosion of tarmac Leicester City Car park erupts and Richard III crashes from his lost tomb to meet the character who has ruined his reputation: History – the record keeper who doesn’t always have his mind on the task.

Richard believes he has risen from the grave to heaven with an unstained conscience, and the awkward task falls to History (sorry History)- to tell the Undead King that all is not as he imagines.

As Richard challenges, History admits he has his own doubts. He is often revered as the bearer of truth. Yet, his perspective is skewed. History overlooks people and stories.

Best-selling novelist Philippa Gregory’s (The Other Boleyn Girl) Richard My Richard is a passionate, tender portrait of man in his time, surrounded by the women who determine his fate. Often funny, often poignant, underpinned by the facts of the past, Richard’s secrets may have died with him, here he rises up to tell us the story, his story, History.

A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and Shakespeare North Playhouse co-production in association with Daniel Schumann.

IN-THE ROUND STAGE LAYOUT

When you select your tickets – the auditorium plan will look slightly different to normal as we are converting our theatre ‘in the round’.

This means that the stage will be built in the middle – where the Pit seating currently is.

In place of seating in the Pit, there will be raked seating on the area where the stage would normally be.

The Dress Circle will remain as usual.

This will be an amazing audience experience offering great views of the stage, all round.

Below are examples of what this might look like from a previous performance at the theatre in 2014