King Lear

Synopsis: Video recording, using three cameras, of a performance of King Lear by the Talawa Theatre Company at the Cochrane Theatre, London. Ben Thomas is Lear.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 1 Apr 1994
Duration: 169 mins

Theatre: Cochrane Theatre, London
Theatre company: Talawa Theatre Company
Production type: Stage Recordings
Plays: King Lear
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: drama in English; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multicultural casting; Black actors
Related items: King Lear

Ben Thomas	Lear
Diane Parish	Cordelia
David Fielder	Earl of Gloucester
Mona Hammond	Fool
Evroy Dhirendra Deer	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Cathy Tyson	Regan
David Harewood	Edmund
David Prescott	Duke of Albany
David Webber	Earl of Kent
Evroy Dhirendra Deer	King of France
Evroy Dhirendra Deer	Doctor
Jeff Diamond	Duke of Cornwall
Karl Collins	Duke of Burgundy
Karl Collins	Oswald
Lolita Chakrabarti	Goneril

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