It Must Be the Stars

Alternative title: Episode 6
Synopsis: Part six 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.

6. Gloucester is blinded while Goneril allies herself with Edmund. Cornwall dies and Cordelia sends men out to find her ailing father to look after him.
Series: Play on Podcasts: King Lear
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 18 Mar 2022
Duration: 25 mins

Notes: The homepage also includes additional podcasts with cast and crew interviews.

Online URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-must-be-the-stars/id1561429994?i=1000554452152
Online format: Streamed/Download

Shakespeare, "It Must Be the Stars". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av79761 (Accessed 27 Dec 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	Oswald
Lance Gardner	King of France
Rex Young	Duke of Cornwall
Tramell Tillman	Edmund

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