King Lear

Synopsis: Stage recording of King Lear with Kevin Kline in the title role. Directed for stage by James Lapine and for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 23 Mar 2007
Duration: 179 mins

Reviews: Bill Brantley ‘Howl, Nay, Express His Lighter Purpose’ in New York Times (8 March 2007). Brantley writes ‘So you were expecting maybe a majestic, troubling, tragic King Lear?" Oh please, that is so last century. With the world on a fast track to hell, you surely don’t want to endure three hours of cosmic misery as entertainment. Instead, chill out and embrace the new ‘Lear Lite’, brought to you by the Public Theater, which features New Age music, eye-soothing color-coordinated costumes and the charming Kevin Kline in the title role’.

Kevin Kline	Lear
Laura Odeh	Cordelia
Larry Bryggman	Earl of Gloucester
Philip Goodwin	Fool
Brian Avers	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Angela Pierce	Goneril
Joaquin Torres	Duke of Burgundy
Joaquin Torres	Curan
Logan Marshall-Green	Edmund
Michael Cerveris	Earl of Kent
Michael Rudko	Curan
Nicole Bocchi	Young Regan
Paris Rose Yates	Young Goneril
Pearce. Daniel	Duke of Cornwall
Piter Marek	King of France
Ryan McCarthy
Talacia Martins	Young Cordelia
Timothy D. Stickney	Oswald