rom your description they seem to have gotten Richard's arc backwards: people don't actually start to listen to him until he's out of power!
Actually now that I think about it, I hadn't realized how odd it was that no one really seemed to be listening to Richard, even among his supporters, once he started to lose power. It was definitely an "oh, he's babbling on again and it isn't helping" attitude being projected.
It's nice to know that there is precedent for the hatchet. The director gave an interview to the local newspaper where he described the king-in-a-box bit as "Richard gets put in the box after he is deposed and basically stays there for the rest of the play," so I was going in wondering about the possibility of soliloquizing and murder within a (closed) box (although, obviously, I suppose, it would have been an open box). But in fact, they, er, unpacked him.
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Actually now that I think about it, I hadn't realized how odd it was that no one really seemed to be listening to Richard, even among his supporters, once he started to lose power. It was definitely an "oh, he's babbling on again and it isn't helping" attitude being projected.
It's nice to know that there is precedent for the hatchet. The director gave an interview to the local newspaper where he described the king-in-a-box bit as "Richard gets put in the box after he is deposed and basically stays there for the rest of the play," so I was going in wondering about the possibility of soliloquizing and murder within a (closed) box (although, obviously, I suppose, it would have been an open box). But in fact, they, er, unpacked him.