During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of major writers across generations, plus a few bonus episodes thrown in.

 

All of our readings are available to enjoy as full videos on our YouTube page but we’re also releasing them in audio form so they can be accessed through your favourite podcast app.

 

To celebrate two years since the beginning of Corona Cold Reads, our troupe reunited for a four-episode season of Shakespeare Reboots. We revisited four classic texts with all-new casts, beginning with Richard III. We’d originally performed the play as the finale to our month-long Henriad in May 2020 but returned to it in our anniversary season as a standalone piece.

 

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The Cast of Richard 2.0:

King Richard III- Christopher Prentice

Clarence- Laura Hubbard

Duchess of York/Ratcliff/Blunt- Kelly Preeper

Brakenbury/Catesby/Boy/Lovel/Herbert/Lords- Susan Bond

Hastings/Girl/Scrivener- Saiya Floyd

Buckingham/Surrey/Tyrrel- Shawn Wilson

Lady Anne/First Murderer/First Citizen/Cardinal/Sheriff- Nicole Falgoust

Rivers/Third Citizen/Lord Mayor/Messenger/Christopher- Miriam B

Queen Elizabeth/Priest/Oxford/Ghost of King Henry VI- Shalyn Bass-McFaul

Derby (aka Stanley)/Vaughan/Second Citizen/Page/Fourth Messenger – Weldon Goree

Queen Margaret/Messenger/young York/Bishop of Ely/Third Messenger- Elizabeth Morriss

King Edward IV/Prince Edward/Pursuivant/Richmond – Talley Gale

Grey/Dorset/Second Murderer/Archbishop of York/Another/Second Messenger/Norfolk /Ghost of Hastings- Hilary Wartinger