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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William Shakespeare. KING LEAR ATG AMBASSADOR CHICHESTER GAVIN KALIN GLASS THEATRE PRODUCTIONS GROUP HALF FULL First published in 2018 by Oberon Books Ltd 521 Caledonian. Front Cover.
William Shakespeare. KING LEAR ATG AMBASSADOR CHICHESTER GAVIN KALIN GLASS THEATRE PRODUCTIONS GROUP HALF FULL First published in 2018 by Oberon Books Ltd 521 Caledonian. Front Cover.
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... Half Full Productions presented the Chichester Festival Theatre production of King Lear at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, opening on 11 July 2018 with the following cast (in alphabetical order) and creative team: Kirsty ...
... Half Full Productions presented the Chichester Festival Theatre production of King Lear at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, opening on 11 July 2018 with the following cast (in alphabetical order) and creative team: Kirsty ...
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... Half Full Productions: Producer Gareth Lake Associate Producer and General Manager Clemmie Forfar Executive Assistant Pamela Jahn Production Assistant Rebecca Vaa Associate Producer (New York) Victoria Weinberg Development Associate ...
... Half Full Productions: Producer Gareth Lake Associate Producer and General Manager Clemmie Forfar Executive Assistant Pamela Jahn Production Assistant Rebecca Vaa Associate Producer (New York) Victoria Weinberg Development Associate ...
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... Half my love with him, half my care, and duty. Sure I shall never marry like To love my father all. my sisters. LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay my good lord. LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young my lord, and ...
... Half my love with him, half my care, and duty. Sure I shall never marry like To love my father all. my sisters. LEAR But goes thy heart with this? CORDELIA Ay my good lord. LEAR So young, and so untender? CORDELIA So young my lord, and ...
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... and fond bondage, in the oppression of agèd tyranny, who sways not as it hath power but as it is suffered. Come to me, that of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue for ever,
... and fond bondage, in the oppression of agèd tyranny, who sways not as it hath power but as it is suffered. Come to me, that of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half his revenue for ever,
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