King Lear

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single fixed camera of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 co-production of King Lear. Directed by Yukio Ninagawa with Nigel Hawthorne as Lear and Sanada Hiroyuki as the Fool.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 9 Dec 1999
Duration: 185 mins

Theatre: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Theatre company: Royal Shakespeare Company
Production type: Stage Recordings
Historical period: No period
Plays: King Lear
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Related items: Hiroyuki Sanada: A Challenge Started from Nothing; Yes, Sir Nigel

Notes: A recording was also made at the Saitama Arts Theatre, Tokyo 11 September 1999 and is held by the Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive.

Nigel Hawthorne’s annotated script is available in the Shakespeare Institute Library.
General: Co-produced between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Thelma Holt Ltd with Sainokuni Shakespeare Company, HoriPro Inc and Point Tokyo Co Ltd.
History: The production opened at the Saitama Arts Theatre, Tokyo. Press night 28 October 1999 (Barbican), The show moved to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to finish its run.
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: Dobson, Michael. Shakespeare Survey 54 (2001) pp 246-82 esp 246-49.

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

Nigel Hawthorne	Lear
Robin Weaver	Cordelia
John Carlisle	Earl of Gloucester
Hiroyuki Sanada	Fool
Michael Maloney	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Alisdair Simpson	King of France
Anna Chancellor	Regan
Brian Poyser	Old Man
Christopher Benjamin	Earl of Kent
Edward Clayton	Knight
Edward Clayton	Gentleman
Jack Tanner	Knight
Jim Fish	Knight
Julian Ovenden	Knight
Julian Ovenden	Herald
Leon Tanner	Captain
Leon Tanner	Knight
Nicholas McGaughey	Duke of Cornwall
Nicolas Tennant	Oswald
Paula Stephens	Gentlewoman
Peter O’Meara	Duke of Burgundy
Raymond Bowers	Doctor
Raymond Bowers	Knight
Sarah Ball	Gentlewoman
Sian Thomas	Goneril
Simon Chandler	Duke of Albany
Stephen Ventura	Knight
William Armstrong	Edmund

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