Richard III
Folger Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DCWinter 2014
Direction: Robert Richmond
Scene Design: Tony Cisek
Costume Design: Mariah Hale
Sound Design: Eric Shemeolonis
Lighting Design: Jim Hunter
DC Metro Theatre Arts - Best of 2014
The staff of DC Metro Theatre Arts recognized Richard III as one of the Best in Design of 2014 in DC Metro Area Theatres in the following categories:Scene Design: Tony Cisek for Richard III at The Folger Theatre
Costume Design: Mariah Hale for Richard III at The Folger Theatre
Lighting Design: Jim Hunter for Richard III at The Folger Theatre
2014 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Regional Awards
Richard III recognized by the readers of BroadwayWorld.Com with first place awards in two categories:Best Play (Professional/Non-Tour): Richard III - Folger Theatre
Best Direction of a Play (Professional/Non-Tour): Robert Richmond - Richard III - Folger Theatre
“...The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan theater has been transformed from its usual proscenium stage to theater in the round for Robert Richmond’s extraordinary production of Richard III. Every element – actors, costumes, scenic design, lighting, sound design and music – contributes to a production that both stops time and leaves one breathless for its speed.”
–Culture Vulture
Full Culture Vulture Review
“...a craftily ghoulish cavalcade.....turned spectrally pale by canny lighting designer Jim Hunter, Richard’s victims rise from their graves to haunt Richard’s nightmare...”
–The Washington Post
Full Washington Post Review
“It is hard to imagine the elegant Folger Theatre reconstructed in the round as a setting for the dark, murderous Richard III. It seems an unnecessary gimmick devised by director Robert Richmond and a defilement of the theater’s unique Elizabethan space. But the stage that Richmond envisioned coupled with the superb, utilitarian design of Tony Cisek and Jim Hunter’s lighting works brilliantly.”
–Washington Life Magazine
Full Washington LIfe Magazine Review
“And I loved, loved, loved the production.”
–Washington Speaks
“Throughout the drama, Jim Hunter’s lighting adds a atmosphere of dark and death to ghastly design for a dungeon’s pit. Sunglasses are never necessary (although worn by a henchman) in this production also billed as a comedy (?), for there is no daylight, only darkness.”
–Washington Speaks
Full Washington Speaks Review
Lighting Design Renderings
Opening burial scene
Opening burial scene from the balcony
An apparition confronts Richard
The ghosts of Richard's deeds
Clarence imprisoned in the tower
Clarence imprisoned in the tower from the balcony
Live Design Magazine
February 2014 story on reconfiguration of Folger Theatre to arena format featuring lighting design renderings.
