![]() ![]() "This is the most courageous thing I ever saw in theatre," Samuel Liff, Senior Theatrical Agent at William Morris, told Jennifer Watts, Fripp's agent. Dark Sovereign dramatizes the snake-pit of that conflict with a human, not a demonic, face". ![]() Richard was caught between a rock and a hard place in a smoldering civil war (England’s Wars of the Roses) that went up in flames. " Dark Sovereign seldom gives Richard’s character more benefit of the doubt than you find in many historical sources. "It’s not wildly revisionist", says Fripp. Fripp shocks with his skillful and uncanny use of verse and his portrait of Richard as a man, not a caricature or stock villain". "Here is the antidote to the scurrilous but seductive play by Shakespeare. "At last!" comments New York director Nathaniel Merchant. 'Dark Sovereign' counter-attacks Shakespeare's polemic, offering a researched, balanced tale of Richard's troubled reign. Robert Fripp, the former Series Producer at CBC-TV's investigative 'The Fifth Estate' program, wrote Dark Sovereign over a period of four years. ![]() Shakespeare wrote 'The Tragedy of Richard the Third' as Tudor propaganda for the Court of Queen Elizabeth I, portraying King Richard as a misshapen sociopath and killer. For the first time in four centuries a modern writer challenges William Shakespeare head-on, writing in English as it was available to the Bard. ![]()
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