Is Man No More Than This?

Alternative title: Episode 5
Synopsis: Part five of a radio podcast serialisation of Shakespeare’s tragedy relocated to modern day San Francisco, adapted into modern English verse by Marcus Gardley and directed by Eric Ting. Part of the ‘Play On Shakespeare’ project to create more contemporary and accessible versions of the texts for performance.

5. Lear, Kent and the Fool are caught in a storm but eventually take refuge in a shack before being rescued by Gloucester.
Series: Play on Podcasts: King Lear
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 11 Mar 2022
Duration: 24 mins

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Online URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-man-no-more-than-this/id1561429994?i=1000553687563
Online format: Streamed/Download

Shakespeare, "Is Man No More Than This?". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av79754 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)

Keith David	Lear
Francesca Fernandez McKenzie	Cordelia
Bernard White	Earl of Gloucester
Aldo Billingslea	Fool
Daniel Jose Molina	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Amy Kim Waschke	Regan
Christiana Clark	Earl of Kent
Daniel Jose Molina	Duke of Burgundy
Gina Daniels	Goneril
J.D. Mollison	Duke of Albany
J.D. Mollison	Doctor
Lance Gardner	King of France
Lance Gardner	Oswald
Rex Young	Duke of Cornwall
Tramell Tillman	Edmund

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