Richard III, 1989, English Shakespeare Company: Andrew Jarvis as Richard III.

Richard III: Director, Michael Bogdanov; Designer, Chris Dyer (ahds.ac.uk/performingarts): English Shakespeare Company, February 1989.

"[Andrew] Jarvis came across in this modern dress version of the play as a small-time Mafia Godfather rather than a monster before whom kings, princes and nobles trembled. With a stiff left leg a minor hump and a kangaroo hop, clothed in Saville Row suits, he hardly looked like the deformed, unfinished creature at which dogs barked in the street." Milton Shulman, Evening Standard 16.2.89. Opening Date: 14 February 1989, Theatre: Old Vic

Although traditionally Richard III has been performed in appropiate historical costume several systematic transpositions to the twentieth century have worked well, because of the viciousness of regimes such as Hitler's. HMR