Full Length Play: King Lear
Lear is a very old king with a problem: three daughters and no sons. In dividing the kingdom between his children, Lear's reasoning is admirable: he wants to hand over the kingdom to his daughters so that "future strife / May be prevented now." But in doing so he sets in train a chain of events that lead to madness, self-discovery and the disintegration of the kingdom. King Lear ..... Ian McDiarmid Kent ..... Michael Nardone Goneril ..... Madeleine Worrall Regan ..... Frances Grey Cordelia ..... Joanna Vanderham Gloucester ..... Bill Paterson Edgar ..... Finn den Hertog Edmund ..... Paul Higgins The Fool ..... Brian Vernel Albany ..... Steven Robertson Cornwall ..... Steven Cree Oswald ..... Owen Whitelaw Burgundy/Doctor ..... Sean Murray King of France ..... Simon Harrison Old Man/Gentleman ..... Ewan Bailey Music performed by Polly Phillips (bassoon) and Georgina McGrath (double bass) Music and Sound Design by Gary C Newman Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.