King Lear
Performed at the Aldwych 11–13 Feb, then, with The Comedy of Errors, went on tour to Europe and the United States of America.
Venues: 17–18 Feb, Schiller-Theater, Berlin, Germany; 21–22 Feb, Smetana Theatre, Prague, Czechoslovakia; 25–28 Feb, Budapest, Hungary; 2–5 March, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; unknown dates in March, Bucharest, Romania; 13–17 March, Warsaw, Poland; 19–22 March, Helsinki, Finland; 23–30 March, Leningrad, USSR; 2–8 April, Moscow Arts Theatre, Moscow, USSR; 13–18 April, National Theatre, Washington, DC, USA; 20 April-3 May, Shubert Theatre, Boston, USA; 5–16 May, Philadelphia, USA; 18 May-6 June, New York State Theatre, New York, USA.
Cast & Crew
Cast
British Captain | Leslie Southwick |
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British Captain | Peter Tory |
Captain | John Church |
Cordelia | Diana Rigg |
Curan | John Harwood |
Doctor | Michael Burrell |
Duke of Albany | Clifford Rose |
Duke of Burgundy | Michael Murray |
Duke of Cornwall | Tony Church |
Earl of Gloucester | John Laurie |
Earl of Kent | Tom Fleming |
Edgar | Brian Murray |
Edmund | Ian Richardson |
Fool | Alec McCowen |
Goneril | Irene Worth |
Herald | Peter Blythe |
King Lear | Paul Scofield |
King of France | Barry MacGregor |
Knight | Michael Murray |
Messenger | Ian Lindsay |
Old Man | Ken Wynne |
Oswald | Michael Williams |
Regan | Pauline Jameson |
Servant | John Cobner |
Unnamed parts | Peter Blythe |
Unnamed parts | Trevor Bowen |
Unnamed parts | John Church |
Unnamed parts | John Cobner |
Unnamed parts | Michael Jenkinson |
Unnamed parts | Wyn Jones |
Unnamed parts | Ian Lindsay |
Unnamed parts | Brian Osborne |
Unnamed parts | Leslie Southwick |
Unnamed parts | Peter Tory |
Crew | |
Designer | Peter Brook |
Director | Peter Brook |
Fight Arranger | John Barton |
Music by | Guy Woolfenden |
Playwright | William Shakespeare |
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