She could: She plays the Fool — usually a male role — the ... amateur actors staging well-received performances of “King Lear” — but so far, only in Ukraine. To Zoe Donegan, the RSC ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating ... he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another Lord ...

Royal King, Give but that portion which yourself ... (Laughing) LEAR: Does any here know me? This is not Lear. FOOL: Lear's shadow. I would learn that; For, by the marks of sovereignty, knowledge ...

The Fool, (Jorge Castiilo-Midyett ... us that virtue often goes unrecognized until it is too late—and that in King Lear, even love is not enough to save the innocent. Resident Ensemble Players ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner ... is set to play Lear’s loyal jester the Fool. Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman, Executive Producers, say: “It is a ...

cutting the text and the role of the Fool, adding his own words, and lowering the body count. In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne ...

Who has ever realized, without the aid of the senses, all the horror and pathos of such a scene as that in which Lear speaks with Edgar and the fool? The majestic madness of the King, the bitter ...

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

During September rehearsals for The Shadow King, the new production of King Lear by Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, Jimi Bani, who plays Edmund, ran through his final, bitter scene with Jada Alberts ...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter ...

Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.