King Lear

Synopsis: A video recording of King Lear directed by Dominic Dromgoole with David Calder as Lear.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Recording date: 2008
Duration: 195 (incl. interval)

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.
History: The production ran 28 April - 17 August 2008. Staged as part of the Totus Mundus season.
Reviews: Charles Spencer, ‘King Lear: a Mighty Lear in Full-blooded Glory’, The Daily Telegraph (5 May 2008). Spencer writes `...But from the moment when he first begins to fear madness and to acknowledge his own part in his downfall, Calder discovers a humanity, vulnerability and spiritual beauty in the role that is as moving as any I have seen’.

David Calder	Lear
Jodie McNee	Cordelia
Joseph Mydell	Earl of Gloucester
Danny Lee Wynter	Fool
Trystan Gravelle	Edgar, later disguised as Tom o’Bedlam
Ashley Rolfe	Oswald
Ben Bishop	Duke of Burgundy
Beru Tessema	King of France
Daniel Hawksford	Edmund
Fraser James	Duke of Albany
Kellie Bright	Regan
Kevork Malikyan	Knight
Kurt Egyiwan	Curan
Paul Copley	Earl of Kent
Paul Lloyd	Old Man
Paul Lloyd	Doctor
Peter Hamilton-Dyer	Duke of Cornwall
Sally Bretton	Goneril