Articles tagged with: Melissa Graves
Role Playing: James Ridge thrives in cold skin of Shakespeare’s smiling serpent, Richard III
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Interview: He’s the very devil in the guise of a cherub, this smiling and murderous Richard III embodied by James Ridge in the American Players Theatre production of Shakespeare’s royal tragedy. Ridge’s duplicitous Richard echoes Lady Macbeth’s cold counsel to Macbeth in his own bloody quest for a crown: “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
‘Richard III’ looses a venomous schemer on summer stage of American Players Theatre
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A snake in the palace. 4 stars!