King Lear is probably the greatest of Shakespeare’s plays. Some consider it as “the grandest effort of his imagination”. Human beings were never so cruel and ‘unnatural’ as in this play; yet human beings were never shown with so much goodness, loyalty and self-sacrifice as in this play. Kings, beggars, and fools; fathers, sons and daughters; love, lust, greed, corruption, violence and war: all of these themes have a place in King Lear.
The play was be performed from 24 to 28 June 2014 at BRONKS Theatre.
I played the King of France. And a good amount of smaller parts that kept me on the stage for a sizeable amount of time!
King Lear cast:
Lear, King of Britain Geoffrey Mamdani
Goneril, his eldest daughter Isabel Walsh
Regan, his second daughter Simone Ellul
Cordelia, his youngest daughter Poppy Bullock
Duke of Albany, married to Goneril Charles Bouchard
Duke of Cornwall, married to Regan Stephen Sadler
King of France Enrique Velázquez Calleja
Duke of Burgundy Carlos Casorrán Amilburu
Earl of Gloucester Jonathon Sawdon
Edgar, his elder son Duncan Lumsden
Edmund, his younger bastard son Vanja Figenwald
Earl of Kent Graham Vincent
Fool, attendant on Lear Brian Holland
Oswald, Goneril’s steward Chris Russ
Old man, Gloucester’s tenant To be confirmed
Servants/Soldiers Lourenco Neves and Alex Lovelady