Academy Award-winning director
Sam Mendes returns to the London stage to direct Old Vic Artistic Director
Kevin Spacey as he plays the title role of
Richard III. This transatlantic endeavour, in which the full company will be drawn from leading American and British actors, reunites Mendes and Spacey for the first time since
American Beauty, for which they both won BAFTA and Academy Awards. With such impressive performance pedigrees, Mendes and Spacey will add that extra something that will make
Richard III tickets a must-have this year.
The play, believed to have been written in approximately 1591, depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. Richard III was the last Yorkist king of England, whose death at the Battle of Bosworth effectively ended the Wars of the Roses. He has become infamous because of the disappearance of his young nephews - the Princes in the Tower. Notable stage performances of Richard III include Kenneth Branagh, Alec Guinness, Ian McKellen, Laurence Olivier and Al Pacino; now it is Kevin Spacey’s turn to portray this complex character and ensure that
Richard III tickets will be worth every penny.
Among Spacey’s most well-known film roles are middle-aged magazine writer
Lester Burnham in
American Beauty,
Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes in
L.A. Confidential,
Roger ‘Verbal’ Kint in
The Usual Suspects and
John Doe in
Seven. On stage, he has appeared in
A Moon for the Misbegotten,
Speed the Plow,
Inherit the Wind and
Richard II (directed by
Trevor Nunn) at
The Old Vic. Also, in November 2010 he was made a CBE by Prince Charles, on behalf of the Queen, for his services to drama, having sold his fair share of
London theatre tickets in his fantastic career.
Sam Mendes, also honoured with a CBE in 2000, has won two Laurence Olivier Awards for his London stage productions
The Glass Menagerie and
Company in 1996, and
Twelfth Night and
Uncle Vanya in 2003. He also received a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical for the Broadway revival of
Cabaret in 1998.
American Beauty was his debut film and earned him an Academy Award for Best Director. Other notable directing roles for on stage productions include the 1994 revival of
Oliver! at the London Palladium and
As You Like It and
The Tempest for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Old Vic. He also directed a number of other successful and well-received films, that include
Road To Perdition,
The Kite Runner and
Jarhead.
So hurry in purchasing your
Richard III tickets today to see the results of this amazing collaboration; get your
London theatre tickets today by contacting your
London theatre ticket specialist.