King Lear

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1990 production of King Lear. Directed by Nicholas Hytner with John Wood as Lear.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 19 Jan 1991
Duration: 180 mins

History: Press night 11 July 1990
Stills: Stills from, and design notes on, the production are available on the Arts and Humanities Performing Arts Data Service (AHDS) at http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm
Reviews: Romain, Michael. ‘A Tragedy of Need, or a Kind of Everest’ in RSC Magazine 3 (1991), pp10-12. [An interview with John Wood and Nicholas Hytner about the production of King Lear. Billington, Michael The Guardian (13 July 1990). Billington writes `...John Wood’s ground-breaking Lear. he does not offer a simple linear reading in which folly leads to madness and thence to moral regeneration: Wood’s Lear exists in a permanent state of spiritual schizophrenia...'

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Alex Kingston	Cordelia
Norman Rodway	Earl of Gloucester
Linda Kerr Scott	Fool
Linus Roache	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Bill McGuirk	Herald
Clarence Smith	King of France
David Troughton	Earl of Kent
Estelle Kohler	Goneril
Griffith Jones	Old Man
Julie Saunders	Servant
Ken Shorter	Knight 1 (Knight)
Lucy Slater	Servant
Marston Bloom	Duke of Albany
Michael Bott	Gentleman
Michael Gardiner	Duke of Burgundy
Paterson Joseph	Oswald
Paul Webster	Duke of Albany
Penny Jones	Servant
Ralph Fiennes	Edmund
Richard Ridings	Duke of Cornwall
Ross Harvey	Captain
Rowena King	Servant
Sally Dexter	Regan
Simon Austin	Duke of Cornwall
Stephen Casey	Servant
Vincent Regan	Curan

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