King Real and the Hoodlums
- Synopsis
- A musical grotesquerie based on the legend of King Lear. King Real lives in a nuclear submobile in which outrageous and horrific scenes of black comedy build up. A power struggle between the King and his daughters escalates until holocaust is triggered. The film was shot among the docklands of Barrow-in-Furness and involved over 200 unemployed local people.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Film; Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Year of release
- 1983
- Duration
- 54 mins
- Availability
- Out of Distribution
Credits
- Director
- John Fox; Paul Haywood
- Writer
- Adrian Mitchell
Additional Details
- Production type
- Other
- Historical period
- Future
- Plays
- King Lear
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Untrained actors
Notes
- Notes
- Concord Media distributed the film for several years but no longer have a copy (1/2016).
- Reviews
- Kershaw, B. ‘King Real’s King Lear:Radical Shakespeare for the Nuclear Age’ in Critical Survey 3 (1991), pp. 249-59.
Production Company
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "King Real and the Hoodlums". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/11877 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)