Anne Simon is an established Luxembourgish theatre director, who has worked in most of Luxembourg’s theatres and internationally in Barcelona, Hanoi, Salzburg and the UK. She is the director of Richard II, running at Théâtre National du Luxembourg from April 23 to May 4th 2022. 'Richard II' is one of William Shakespeare’s history plays, dealing with the last two years of Richard II’s reign and how he was overthrown by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, and eventually imprisoned and murdered
This production has a reduced cast of only two actors and are accompanied by a cellist. Therefore, the tragedy is stripped down to the core of the plot as the dangers and limits of power, rank and gender expectations are laid bare.