King LearBloomsbury Publishing, 2018 M08 6 - 104 pages Jonathan Munby's explosive revival of Shakespeare's epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre. Performed by a celebrated cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered monarch in a fractured kingdom. In this version the play has been cut back to its essentials to create a shorter play for a modern audience. Munby has also created a version to suit the intimacy and immediacy of the Minerva Theatre (Chichester), whilst harnessing what he describes as the "catapulting ferocity" of the play. Two ageing fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends. Tender, brutal, moving and epic, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written. |
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... Curan/Doctor Goneril Cordelia Duke of Albany Duke of Burgundy/Lear's Knight/ Monsieur La Far Oswald King Lear Edmund King of France/British Captain Duke of Cornwall/Albany's Man Earl of Gloucester Supernumeraries Director Designer ...
... Curan/Doctor Goneril Cordelia Duke of Albany Duke of Burgundy/Lear's Knight/ Monsieur La Far Oswald King Lear Edmund King of France/British Captain Duke of Cornwall/Albany's Man Earl of Gloucester Supernumeraries Director Designer ...
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... Curan/Doctor Duke of Albany Fool Duke of Burgundy/Lear's Knight/ Monsieur La Far Oswald King Lear Goneril Duke of Cornwall/Albany's Man King of France/British Captain Edgar Cordelia Earl of Gloucester Ensemble Supernumeraries Director ...
... Curan/Doctor Duke of Albany Fool Duke of Burgundy/Lear's Knight/ Monsieur La Far Oswald King Lear Goneril Duke of Cornwall/Albany's Man King of France/British Captain Edgar Cordelia Earl of Gloucester Ensemble Supernumeraries Director ...
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... CURAN ALBANY'S MAN King of Britain his eldest daughter his second daughter his youngest daughter married to Goneril married to Regan his elder son his younger bastard son loyal to Lear attendant on Lear Goneril's steward Gloucester's ...
... CURAN ALBANY'S MAN King of Britain his eldest daughter his second daughter his youngest daughter married to Goneril married to Regan his elder son his younger bastard son loyal to Lear attendant on Lear Goneril's steward Gloucester's ...
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... gods , stand up for bastards . Enter GLOUCESTER and CURAN . GLOUCESTER Kent banish'd thus ? And France in choler parted ? And the King gone tonight ? Subscribed his power ? All this done upon the gad ? Edmund , how SCENE 2.
... gods , stand up for bastards . Enter GLOUCESTER and CURAN . GLOUCESTER Kent banish'd thus ? And France in choler parted ? And the King gone tonight ? Subscribed his power ? All this done upon the gad ? Edmund , how SCENE 2.
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1ST B.SOLDIER 1st BRITISH SOLDIER Alack ALBANY’S Ambassador Theatre Group art thou bastard blood brother Chichester Festival Theatre Countess of Kent Danny Webb dear Director doth Dover Duke of Albany Duke of Cornwall Earl of Gloucester Enter EDGAR Enter EDMUND Enter GLOUCESTER Enter KENT disguised Enter LEAR Enter OSWALD Exeunt LEAR eyes farewell father follow FOOL LEAR FOOL fortune foul fiend France give GLOUCESTER EDGAR GLOUCESTER LEAR gods grace hath hear heart hither honour i'the Jonathan Munby KENT LEAR KENT King Lear knave lady LEAR EDGAR LEAR FOOL LEAR LEAR GONERIL LEAR KENT LEAR LEAR REGAN LEAR’S LEAR'S KNIGHT letter Look lord ma’am madam man’s master Minerva Theatre never night noble nuncle o’er o’the pray Prithee REGAN CORNWALL REGAN LEAR Richard Clews SCENE Sinéad Cusack sirrah sister speak stand tell There's thine thou art thou dost traitor villain where’s