AusStage

Event

King Lear

Venue

SGIO Theatre, Brisbane, QLD

First Date

17 May 1978

Last Date

10 June 1978

Dates Estimated

Status

Professional

World Premiere

Part of a Tour

Yes

Primary Genre

Theatre - Spoken Word

Secondary Genre

Tragedy

Subjects

Ageing

Organisations

Contributors

Name	Function	Notes
Geoffrey Cartwright	Actor	Knight / Servant
Warwick Comber	Actor	Edgar
Ben Gabriel	Actor	Gloucester
Gordon Glenwright	Actor	Kent
Ivar Kants	Actor	Edmund
Fay Kelton	Actor	Regan
Ron Layne	Actor	Knight / Servant
Ingrid Mason	Actor	Cordelia
Sally McKenzie	Actor	Understudy
Robert Menzies	Actor	Understudy
Warren Mitchell	Actor	Lear
Russell Newman	Actor	Oswald
Geoffrey Rush	Actor	Fool
Pat Thomson	Actor	Goneril
Robert Kingham	Assistant Director
Jamie Henson	Assistant Stage Manager
Peter Cooke	Designer
Alan Edwards	Director
Petar Petrovich	Head Mechanist
David Read	Lighting Designer
Derek Campbell	Lighting Operator/Technician
William Shakespeare	Playwright
Jim Cotter	Sound Designer
Rodney Therkelsen	Sound Operator/Engineer
David Gration	Stage Manager
John Watson

Works

Text Nationality

England

Production Nationality

Australia

Event Status

Completed

Data Source

Source	Description
CV	Jamie Henson
Programme	Dennis Wolanski Library collection at UNSW Library
Book	Performing Arts Year Book of Australia 1978

Event Identifier

5979

Dataset

AusStage