King Lear

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Event King Lear
Venue Durham Street Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
First Date 21 March 1972
Last Date 9 April 1972
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description The play is a coherent nightmare. You are in the valley of death, assailed by a sound-chaos of all-shaking thunder, screams, half-heard supernatural whisperings, discordant fanfares. Imaginativey, you are carried on a wheel of fire and burned near to death…
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Tragedy
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
David Anido Actor King of France
Gerrit Bahlman Actor Edgar
Wayne Bell Actor Edmund
John Blumsky Actor Duke of Cornwall
Anne Bradshaw Actor Regan
Alan Bunn Actor Duke of Burgundy
Judie Douglass Actor Goneril
Barry Empson Actor Gloucester
John Goodliffe Actor Gentleman
Bill Hayward Actor The Fool
Ralph Johnson Actor First Servant/Herald
Bernard Kearns Actor Earl of Kent
Sue Keith Actor Cordelia
Jonathan Mane Actor Duke of Albany
Stephen Smith Actor Oswald
Patrick Smyth Actor King Lear
Claire Fergusson Costume Designer
Mervyn Thompson Director
Simon Tipping Musician
William Shakespeare Playwright
Maurice Askew Set Designer
Works
Text Nationality England
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 185805