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'There's a truth to it': RSC casts disabled actor as Richard III by Harriet Sherwood Arts, Culture Correspondent

Arthur Hughes says decision for 2022 production will allow lived experience to be 'shown properly' He is one of Shakespeare's most reviled characters, distinguished by his "deformed, unfinish'd" figure. Now, for the first time, the Royal Shakespeare Company has cast a disabled actor in the title role of Richard III in a new production opening later this year. For Arthur Hughes, it is a "dream come true" although his …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:48pm on February 7, 2022

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