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Actors discuss playing Lear

Posted by: kieran 10:05 pm EST 01/15/14

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Link "King Lear"

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Timothy West and Lily Garland, King Lear and Babette

Posted by: AlanScott 12:18 am EST 01/16/14
In reply to: Actors discuss playing Lear - kieran 10:05 pm EST 01/15/14

Timothy West on playing King Lear: "And it's always very satisfying to die at the end of a play."

Lily Garland on playing Babette: "And I die at the end. You tell me . . . what could be better?"


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re: Actors discuss playing Lear

Posted by: drummergirl 10:37 pm EST 01/15/14
In reply to: Actors discuss playing Lear - kieran 10:05 pm EST 01/15/14

Thanks! Seeing Lear tomorrow night, so this is timely.


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re: Actors discuss playing Lear

Posted by: BruceinIthaca 12:04 am EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: Actors discuss playing Lear - drummergirl 10:37 pm EST 01/15/14

I think "Lear" may be my favorite work of literature (dramatic or non-) in the world. It's an amazing piece of writing and, in the right hands, incredibly powerful in performance. And even in less than expert hands (I'm looking at you, gender-reversed production at Cornell a decade or two ago--the Lear wasn't so much the problem, as having the daughters become rather queeny sons), its poetry and truth cannot be defeated.


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Posted by: MarjorieMae 09:58 am EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: Actors discuss playing Lear - BruceinIthaca 12:04 am EST 01/16/14

I love it too. To think someone could write such beautiful language in an age when people were tossing their deuces out the window. I would have loved to have seen a 2nd Avenue Yiddish production. After all, the real title of the work is (or rather should be), "Go Raise Children!"


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