Richard III on More 4... been looking forward to it all day. But...
SCOWL - its one of those DETESTABLE modern dress productions.
These things (yes, I'm glad someone did experiment with the idea of course, but that should have been IT) are all about lauding the director and production team. Lauding Shakespeare is of secondary or minor import, whatever they might argue.
To appreciate, you must enter into a pact where being dazzled by the cleverness, the 'verve, imagination and sheer audacity' (such is the usual rhetoric) of said luminaries, is a given.
I refuse, point blank, penitus vacuus eximius.

It should have ended here (that's Macbeth BTW)
I've left More 4 on, as I'm listening to it.
I will probably not be able to resist looking up when I hear fully mechanised industrialised Richard howling that his ALL depends on leaping (sorry, hopping) astride a four-legged creature.
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Hahahaha -- spotted;
his armoured car has stalled so, surrounded as he is by tanks and gattling fire, he yells 'My Kingdom for a horse'. OK its played for pure irony. But it doesn't work on that level either. If he was being ironic in that situation he'd want something like a Bentley Mayfair or the Bluebird. At LEAST something more bullet-proof than a horse anyway.
Actually the ideal transliteration would be 'my kingdom for a bicycle!'
Wrapping it all up with Al Jolson was just OBVIOUS.
Boooooo