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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... 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 Burgundy ...
... 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 Burgundy ...
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... Regan Gentleman Informer/Old Man Edmund Richard Clews Countess of Kent Curan/Doctor Duke of Albany Fool Duke of Burgundy/Lear's Knight/ Monsieur La Far Oswald James Corrigan Sinéad Cusack John Hastings Anthony Howell Lloyd Hutchinson ...
... Regan Gentleman Informer/Old Man Edmund Richard Clews Countess of Kent Curan/Doctor Duke of Albany Fool Duke of Burgundy/Lear's Knight/ Monsieur La Far Oswald James Corrigan Sinéad Cusack John Hastings Anthony Howell Lloyd Hutchinson ...
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... brilliant and astute analysis of the play. Also my thanks to friend and scholar, David Hunt for his generosity, insight and wisdom. – Jonathan Munby London, July 2018 Characters List of Roles LEAR GONERIL REGAN King of Britain.
... brilliant and astute analysis of the play. Also my thanks to friend and scholar, David Hunt for his generosity, insight and wisdom. – Jonathan Munby London, July 2018 Characters List of Roles LEAR GONERIL REGAN King of Britain.
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William Shakespeare. Characters List of Roles LEAR GONERIL REGAN King of Britain his eldest daughter his second daughter his youngest daughter married to Goneril CORDELIA DUKE OF ALBANY DUKE OF CORNWALL married to Regan KING OF FRANCE ...
William Shakespeare. Characters List of Roles LEAR GONERIL REGAN King of Britain his eldest daughter his second daughter his youngest daughter married to Goneril CORDELIA DUKE OF ALBANY DUKE OF CORNWALL married to Regan KING OF FRANCE ...
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... gens aurea mundo casta fave Lucina: tuus iam Apollo! Enter EDGAR bearing a coronet, LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA. LEAR The two great Princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love, Long in ...
... gens aurea mundo casta fave Lucina: tuus iam Apollo! Enter EDGAR bearing a coronet, LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA. LEAR The two great Princes, France and Burgundy, Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love, Long in ...
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