Real-life dramas echo in Ralph Fiennes' Richard III

Now is the summer of our discontent.

In many parts of the world, this is a season of violence, uncertainty and political turbulence. It's a time when real life seems to echo Richard III, William Shakespeare's chilling drama of political ambition, civil war and the human cost of power.

World events give a powerful resonance to Ralph Fiennes' performance as the ruthless ruler, determined to eliminate all rivals, in a Rupert Goold-directed production of the play at London's Almeida Theatre.