Video review transcript:

It was great being back at the Bridge Theatre and getting to see one of my favourite plays, Richard II, this production starring Jonathan Bailey.

The Bridge Theatre is a fantastic, flexible performance space, and in this production, it's used really well. It's a thrust stage, bits of scenery and set are popping up from underneath the stage.

It's all done very, very seamlessly and slickly.

The actors leave at various different points, sometimes through the audience, sometimes they're in the audience. There's a lot going on, and I liked it for that.

It's a play of lots of contrast, contrast in costumes, styling, temperament and tone, particularly between Richard and Bolingbroke and within Richard himself.

Jonathan Bailey's portrayal plays a multi-faceted character with lots of different personality traits coming in.