King Lear

Synopsis: A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the RSC Academy’s 2002 touring production of King Lear. Directed by Declan Donnellen with Nonso Anozie as Lear.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2002

General: The inaugural production from the RSC Academy created to develop full training and educational programmes in classical theatre for young people, members of the RSC and the wider world.
History: Press night (Swan Theatre) 23 September 2002. The production then formed part of the RSC’s annual residency in Newcastle before moving on to the Young Vic in London.
User comments: Nonso Anozie played Lear in this production when he was 23 years old. He was the only black actor in the production.
Reviews: Dobson, Michael. Shakespeare Survey 56 (2003). pp256-86 (esp.283-86).

Name: Royal Shakespeare Company
Web: https://www.rsc.org.uk External site opens in new window
Address: Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Waterside
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
CV37 6BB

Nonso Anozie	Lear
Kirsty Besterman	Cordelia
Ryan Kiggell	Earl of Gloucester
Edward Hogg	Fool
Bruce Godfree	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Adam Webb	Edmund
Aishling Howard	Goneril
Dean Ashton	Curan
Guy Flanagan	Oswald
Katherine Manners	Regan
Keiran Hill	Duke of Cornwall
Matthew Douglas	Duke of Albany
Mo Zainal	King of France
Robert Wynn	Duke of Burgundy
Sarah Everard	Old woman
Steven Robertson	Earl of Kent

British Universities Film & Video Council