You know the
opening, that famous declaration. It isn’t happening yesterday, it isn’t
happening tomorrow. It is happening right here, right now, on the stage in
front of us, in as close to real time as we can get. It is immediate, present,
in your face; unavoidable; NOW!
A cousin to the Hamlet he directed for the Studio
Company at Riverside Theatres in 2004 and for the Ensemble in 2006, Mark
Kilmurry’s Richard III,
playing at the Ensemble Theatre, is characterised by a
sense of making do, of finding old odd ends and repurposing them to new means;
of finding new life in the dark and old.
