King Lear

Synopsis: A video recording of the stage production of King Lear by the Prospect Theatre Company, directed by Kenny McBain with Timothy West as Lear.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 1 Sep 1972

Notes: Entry 259.1 in Rothwell & Melzer Shakespeare On Screen: an International Filmography and Videography (London: Mansell, 1990) notes that ‘apparently a recording of a theatrical production by London’s Prospect Theatre Company in September 1971. Housed in a Venetian archive’. The location has not been verified for this entry.
History: The performance opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London 5 June 1972

Timothy West	Lear
Jill Dixon	Cordelia
John Bradley	Earl of Gloucester
Ronnie Stevens	Fool
Timothy Dalton	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Christopher Burgess	Duke of Albany
James Snell	King of France
Michael Graham Cox	Oswald
Ralph Watson	Duke of Cornwall
Ronald Smerczak	Duke of Burgundy
Sheila Ballantine	Goneril
Trevor Martin	Earl of Kent
Vivienne Martin	Regan

British Universities Film & Video Council