artsUCL Season: Richard II
29 - 31/01/2026
'This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, […]
Is now leased out - I die pronouncing it -
Like to a tenement or pelting farm.’
Richard’s rule is one of eyes and cameras. Incompetent and unchallenged, he governs a tyrannical surveillance state, leaving the nation in social and ecological disrepair.
Enter Bolingbroke, the King’s cousin and burgeoning opponent. As rebellion