Full Cast Announced for the Donmar's Richard II, Starring Eddie Redmayne

Casting is now complete for the Donmar Warehouse's production of Shakespeare's Richard II, starring Tony winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Michael Grandage. Performances begin December 1 with opening night set for December 6. The limited engagement, which will mark Grandage's last production as artistic director at the Donmar, will conclude on February 4, 2012.

In Shakespeare’s epic tale of destruction, ruin and decay, King Richard banishes his noblemen and seizes their land to fuel his own wars. As anger mounts, a battle for the soul of England begins and one man's divine right to rule is called into question.

The cast includes Harry Atwell (Hamlet) as Exton, Pippa Bennett-Warner (The Lion King) as Queen Isabel, Stefano Braschi (King Lear) as Green/Scroop/Gardener's Man, Andrew Buchan (The Man Who Had All the Luck) as Henry Bolingbroke, Ron Cook (King Lear) as the Duke of York, Daniel Easton (Sixty-Six Books) as Bagot, Daniel Flynn (The White Guard) as Earl of Northumberland, Michael Hadley (King Lear) as Gaunt/Gardener/Keeper, Sean Jackson (Hamlet) as Fitzwater, Phillip Joseph (Danton's Death) as Welsh Captain/Bishop of Carlisle, Michael Marcus (Jumpy) as Bushy/Abbot of Westminster, Sian Thomas (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) as Duchess of Gloucester/Duchess of York, Joseph Timms (Twelfth Night) as Harry Percy, Ben Turner (Caliqula) as Mowbray/Salisbury and Ashley Zhangazha (King Lear) as Aumerle/Groom.

The production features set and costume design by Richard Kent, lighting by David Plater and music and sound design by Adam Cork.