King Lear

Synopsis: A video recording of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2001 production of King Lear; directed by Barry Kyle with Julian Glover as Lear.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2001

Notes: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre makes several recordings of a single production, using three fixed cameras, to enable practitioners and researchers to observe how the play has developed during the run.

For a detailed account of the rehearsal process, and comments from actors and theatre practitioners on the production, visit http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/globelink/frameset.htm
History: The production ran 12 May-21 September in the Celtic Season.
Reviews: Dobson, Michael, Shakespeare Survey (2002): 285-321 (esp.303-5).

Research Bulletin. Issue 1, May 2002. (http://globe-education.org). Accessed 6.2009. Includes detailed rehearsal and production notes.

Julian Glover	Lear
Tonia Chauvet	Cordelia
Geoffrey Whitehead	Earl of Gloucester
John McEnery	Fool
Paul Brennan	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Andrew Whipp	King of France
Bruce Alexander	Earl of Kent
David Caron	Duke of Burgundy
Felicity Dean	Regan
Harry Gostelow	Duke of Albany
Michael Fenner	Duke of Cornwall
Michael Gould	Edmund
Murray McArthur	Herald
Patricia Kerrigan	Goneril
Peter Hamilton Dyer	Oswald
Roger McKern	Curan
Simon Hyde	Servant of Cornwall

British Universities Film & Video Council