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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... letter speed , And my invention thrive , Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate . I grow , I prosper : Now gods , stand up for bastards . Enter GLOUCESTER and CURAN . GLOUCESTER Kent banish'd thus ? And France in choler parted ? And ...
... letter speed , And my invention thrive , Edmund the base Shall top the legitimate . I grow , I prosper : Now gods , stand up for bastards . Enter GLOUCESTER and CURAN . GLOUCESTER Kent banish'd thus ? And France in choler parted ? And ...
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... letter . ] So please your lordship , none . GLOUCESTER Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter ? EDMUND I know no news , my lord . GLOUCESTER What paper were you reading ? EDMUND Nothing , my lord . GLOUCESTER No ? What needed ...
... letter . ] So please your lordship , none . GLOUCESTER Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter ? EDMUND I know no news , my lord . GLOUCESTER What paper were you reading ? EDMUND Nothing , my lord . GLOUCESTER No ? What needed ...
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... letter! Abhorrèd villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! I'll apprehend him. Where is he? EDMUND I do not well know my lord. I dare pawn down my life for him, that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour, and to no ...
... letter! Abhorrèd villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! I'll apprehend him. Where is he? EDMUND I do not well know my lord. I dare pawn down my life for him, that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour, and to no ...
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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