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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... Edgar Regan Gentleman Informer/Old Man Countess of Kent Jonathan Bailey Kirsty Bushell Richard Clews Sinéad Cusack Fool Phil Daniels John Hastings Dervla Kirwan Tamara Lawrance Curan/Doctor Goneril Cordelia Duke of Albany Duke of ...
... Edgar Regan Gentleman Informer/Old Man Countess of Kent Jonathan Bailey Kirsty Bushell Richard Clews Sinéad Cusack Fool Phil Daniels John Hastings Dervla Kirwan Tamara Lawrance Curan/Doctor Goneril Cordelia Duke of Albany Duke of ...
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... Edgar Cordelia Earl of Gloucester Ensemble Caleb Roberts Luke Thompson Anita-Joy Uwajeh Danny Webb James Millard, Johanne Murdock, Jessica Murrain, Scott Sparrow, John Vernon Charlie Bentley, Leon Finnan, Jamal Franklin, Sonny Poon Tip ...
... Edgar Cordelia Earl of Gloucester Ensemble Caleb Roberts Luke Thompson Anita-Joy Uwajeh Danny Webb James Millard, Johanne Murdock, Jessica Murrain, Scott Sparrow, John Vernon Charlie Bentley, Leon Finnan, Jamal Franklin, Sonny Poon Tip ...
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... ! One extraordinary example is found in the closing moments. Shakespeare has, in the Quarto edition, Albany speaking the final lines, in the Folio however, those lines are given to Edgar. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak.
... ! One extraordinary example is found in the closing moments. Shakespeare has, in the Quarto edition, Albany speaking the final lines, in the Folio however, those lines are given to Edgar. The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak.
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... EDGAR EDMUND COUNTESS OF KENT FOOL his elder son his younger bastard son loyal to Lear attendant on Lear Goneril's steward Gloucester's tenant follower of Gloucester follower of Albany OSWALD OLD MAN CURAN ALBANY'S MAN Attendants ...
... EDGAR EDMUND COUNTESS OF KENT FOOL his elder son his younger bastard son loyal to Lear attendant on Lear Goneril's steward Gloucester's tenant follower of Gloucester follower of Albany OSWALD OLD MAN CURAN ALBANY'S MAN Attendants ...
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... you smell a fault? KENT I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. GLOUCESTER But I have a son, By order of law – KENT Edgar – GLOUCESTER Some year elder than this; who, Contents Introduction Characters SCENE 1.
... you smell a fault? KENT I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. GLOUCESTER But I have a son, By order of law – KENT Edgar – GLOUCESTER Some year elder than this; who, Contents Introduction Characters SCENE 1.
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