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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... I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond, no more nor less. How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. CORDELIA Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me,
... I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond, no more nor less. How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. CORDELIA Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me,
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... fortunes are his love, I shall not be his wife. FRANCE LEAR Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poor, Most choice forsaken, and most loved despis'd, Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon, Be it lawful I take up what's cast away ...
... fortunes are his love, I shall not be his wife. FRANCE LEAR Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poor, Most choice forsaken, and most loved despis'd, Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon, Be it lawful I take up what's cast away ...
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... fortune's alms, you have obedience scanted, And well are worth the want that you have wanted. Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides, Who covers faults, at last with shame derides: Well may you prosper. Come, my fair Cordelia ...
... fortune's alms, you have obedience scanted, And well are worth the want that you have wanted. Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides, Who covers faults, at last with shame derides: Well may you prosper. Come, my fair Cordelia ...
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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