Kilkenny arts festival, IrelandA gender-blind reworking of Shakespeare's history plays drives home their universality for kings and commoners alike,"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this..." the next word in John of Gaunt's famous deathbed speech is, of course, "England". Tonight these lines are delivered beneath a darkening evening sky close by Kilkenny castle, where the actual Richard II stayed durin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39AM on August 16, 2015