Great Dane … David Tennant in the RSC's production of Hamlet. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Five years after his critically acclaimed Hamlet, David Tennant is to return to the ranks of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the title role of Richard II.
On Wednesday the RSC's new artistic director Gregory Doran announced details of his first season since taking over from Michael Boyd, with the return of Tennant and adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels among the highlights.
Doran himself will direct Richard II, following on from their Hamlet in 2008–09 – a production that the Guardian's Michael Billington described as "one of the most richly textured, best-acted versions of the play we have seen in years". While it was a much praised production it was not without its difficulties; chief among them Tennant's prolapsed disc that meant he was unable to perform in the London production for about a month.
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