King Lear

Synopsis: Radio version of the play directed and produced by Laurence Foster with Seamus Forde in the title role, Cathryn Brennan as Cordelia and Dan Reardon as Fool. Special effects by Brendan Fitzgerald and Kieran Hogan.
Language: English (Ireland)
Country: Ireland
Medium: Radio
Transmission details: 1988 (Channel: RTE Radio 1)
Duration: 122 mins

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Reviews: The radio performance is analysed in detail in Dermott Rattigan’s production analysis of four King Lear broadcasts in his Theatre of Sound: Radio and the Dramatic Imagination (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2002), pp. 223 ff.

Seamus Forde	Lear
Cathryn Brennan	Cordelia
Peter Dix	Earl of Gloucester
Dan Reardon	Fool
Michael Grennell	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Aiden Grennell	Earl of Kent
Brendan O’Duill	Servant
Brendan O’Duill	Doctor
Collette Proctor	Goneril
Conor Farrington	Duke of Albany
David Heap	King of France
David Heap	Curan
Fredericks Scott	Oswald
Garvan McGrath	Duke of Cornwall
Ivan Hanly	Old Man
Jim Reid	Edmund
Kate Minogue	Regan