King Lear
From: Friday, 31st August 2012
To: Saturday, 3 November 2012
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Synopsis
King Lear divides his Kingdom between his daughters according to a declaration of their love for him. His eldest Goneril and Regan exaggerate their affection and inherit. His youngest daughter Cordelia speaks only the truth and is banished. So begins the tragedy of King Lear, whose dignity, sanity and finally life are torn from him by a self-seeking younger generation, ambitious for his power. What is love, what is madness, what is truth - Shakespeare explores these questions together with many others in King Lear, widely considered to be his greatest tragedy.
Our Review:
12 September 2012
Anyone seeing Lear for the first time tonight would have got the impression that it was some kind of horror play. Some rather portentous music heralds the action, the first scene of which takes place in a gloomy castle: Tom Scutt's set and costume design accentuate this rather monochrome world, hinting at dark goings-on.
Michael Attenborough's production is strong on the family dynamics that underpin this tragedy with a novel interpretation of a motivation for Goneril and Regan's malevolence. The clear undercurrent of sexual abuse when Lear kisses Goneril fiercely on the mouth when he says "thou shalt find that I have resumed the shape which thou dost think I have cast off forever" is a reminder that this king wasn't always an old man of fourscore years and upwards.
Jonathan Pryce is a fine Lear. There's an authority to his verse speaking and he captures...
Cast
Jonathan Pryce (King Lear)
Kieran Bew (Edmund)
Michael Byrne (Fool)
Steven Elliott (Oswald)
Phoebe Fox (Cordelia)
Ian Gelder (Kent)
Richard Goulding (Edgar)
Richard Hope (Albany)
Jenny Jules (Regan)
Barry McCarthy (Lear's Loyal Servant)
Chook Sibtain (Cornwall)
Zoe Waites (Goneril)
Clive Wood (Gloucester)
Alix Wilton Regan (Gloucester's Loyal Servant)
Creative
Shakespeare (Author)
Coutts & Co (Corporate Sponsor)
Almeida Theatre (Producer)
Michael Attenborough (Director)
Tom Scutt (Design)
Jon Clark (Lighting)
Dan Jones (Sound)
Dan Jones (Music)
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