Acting
Ron Cook's simmering Richard Plantagenet steals every scene.
Direction
Howell's bare-stage staging makes the violence intimate and brutal.
Production
BBC's toy castle aesthetic that's somehow perfect.
Director
Jane Howell
Peter Benson
King Henry VI
David Burke
Duke of Gloucester / Dick the Butcher
Michael Byrne
John Hume / Lieutenant
Ron Cook
Richard Plantagenet
Julia Foster
Queen Margaret
Bernard Hill
Duke of York
Trevor Peacock
Sheriff / Jack Cade
Mark Wing-Davey
Earl of Warwick
John Benfield
First Murderer / Ship's Master
Anne Carroll
Duchess of Gloucester
Paul Chapman
Earl of Suffolk
Arthur Cox
Thomas Horner / Lord Clifford
David Daker
Duke of Buckingham
Brian Deacon
Duke of Somerset / Smith the Weaver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This BBC production used the same cast across all three Henry VI plays shot back-to-back, creating genuine on-screen exhaustion by Part 3.
Jane Howell's decision to use child actors as the tower princes in later plays was inspired by watching her young cast grow into their roles over months of filming.
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