So the first reviews for Gregory Doran's production of Richard II, starring David Tennant, are in and they are glowing, both for the entire production and for DT in the title role, which makes me hope I'll manage to catch the performance when its broadcast to several cinemas, including one in Munich. One aspect in the reviews, however, made me sit up in a mixture of amusement and sympathy, because, what the critics are hinting here leaves me to conclude good old Doran is going for a shipping war with the Richard/Bolingbroke fandom. Also that he must have really liked The Hollow Crown, or rather, the Richard II part of same, not in their interpretation of Richard himself but, well, let's put this under a spoiler cut for anyone who doesn't want to get spoiled for a theatre production twist of a centuries old play based on English history.

( Lancaster versus York, the prelude )