King Lear

Synopsis: Video recording of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2013 touring production of King Lear directed by Bill Buckhurst with Joseph Marcell in the title role.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2013
Duration: 165 (inc. interval)

Notes: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre makes several recordings of a single production, using four fixed cameras, to enable practitioners and researchers to observe how the play has developed during the run.
General: An eight-actor Lear production with an unusual doubling technique. At the back of the stage was a rack with various costumes hanging from it. As the as an actor changed roles, he or she would doff a different costume from the rack.

Joseph Marcell	Lear
Bethan Cullinane	Cordelia
Rawiri Paratene	Earl of Gloucester
Bethan Cullinane	Fool
Matthew Romain	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Dickon Tyrrell	Earl of Kent
Matthew Romain	Duke of Burgundy
Matthew Romain	Duke of Cornwall
Oliver Boot	King of France
Oliver Boot	Edmund
Rawiri Paratene	Duke of Albany
Ruth Everett	Curan
Ruth Everett	Goneril
Shanaya Rafaat	Regan

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