Run Dates
2002.09.23 ~ 2002.10.12
RSC
World Premiere
About the show
Declan Donnellan directed the 16 young actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Academy in this stripped-down and energetic version of King Lear. The stage was largely bare apart from odd bits of upended furniture. Nonso Anozie's powerful Lear was a mixture of affection and rage while Edward Hogg played the Fool as stand-up comic, at one point sitting on Lear's lap like a ventriloquist's dummy.
Details
CAST
Nonso Anozie – King Lear
Dean Ashton – Curan
Kirsty Besterman – Cordelia
Matthew Douglas – Duke of Albany
Sarah Everard – Old Woman
Guy Flanagan – Oswald
Bruce Godfree – Edgar
Kieran Hill – Duke of Cornwall
Edward Hogg – Fool
Aishling Howard – Goneril
Ryan Kiggell – Earl of Gloucester
Katherine Manners – Regan
Steven Robertson – Earl of Kent
Adam Webb – Edmund
Robert Wynn – Duke of Burgundy
Mo Zainal – King of France
CREATIVE TEAM
Playwright – William Shakespeare
Director – Declan Donnellan
Designer – Nick Ormerod
Light Designer – Judith Greenwood
Music – Paddy Cunneen
Sound Designer – Ross Chatfield
Movement Director – Jane Gibson
Fight Arranger – Terry King
production photo John Haynes © RSC
Where it's been performed
RSC
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford
United Kingdom
Stratford
,United Kingdom