King Lear in Brooklyn
Publisher: Oberon Books, Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781783193264
Subjects: Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, stage history; Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, king lear
Description: What is King Lear really thinking? What has made his daughters what they are? What does his mysterious Fool dream about? What really lies behind the familiar lines of Shakespeare's great tragedy? Michael Pennington appeared triumphantly as King Lear in New York in 2014 and repeats the part in a major UK tour in 2016. As well as giving an enthralling account of the circumstances and fortunes of the New York production, he dispels the idea of this great play as something forbidding and remote by bringing its characters vividly into the present in their contemporary voices to explain their reactions, strategies, struggles and setbacks. This counterpoint of Shakespeare's play seen from this point of view with the earthly story of the actor working in Brooklyn with real people is uncanny and beautiful. Pennington's account is also funny, highly personal and deeply illuminating, both honest and scholarly. Invaluable for theatre practitioners, theatregoers and all lovers of Shakespeare, KING LEAR IN BROOKLYN is the work of one of our very finest actor-writers at the top of his game.
Table of contents: title: Author's Note
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Week One
title: Classon Avenue - The Civil War - Meeting and Greeting - The Set - Peter Brook - Nicol Williamson - Paul Scofield - Tim Hardin
pagenum: 14; label: Week Two
title: A Load of Junk? - The Empty Space - Fulton Street - The Martyrs' Monument - The Division of the Kingdom
pagenum: 42; label: Week Three
title: The Goddess Nature - A Pair of Edgars - Edmund - The Second Curse - The Kent Business - Lear at the Bus Stop
pagenum: 76; label: Week Four
title: The Metropolitan Opera - Broadway - A Gaggle of Lears - The Hunting of Edgar - The End of the Past
pagenum: 106; label: Week Five
title: Lights, Music and Action - The Storm - Poor Tom - Horowitz and Fishel - The Blinding of Gloucester - The Three Sisters
pagenum: 138; label: Week Six
title: The Costumes - The Wall Street Journal - Cordelia's Return - Strange Oeillades - Dover
pagenum: 166; label: Weeks Seven and Eight
title: The Invasion - The Reckoning - The Death of Cordelia - The Technicals - The Previews
pagenum: 188; title: The Eleven Scenes of Lear
pagenum: 209; label: Weeks Nine to Fifteen
title: The Run of the Play
pagenum: 226; label: Weeks Sixteen to a Hundred and Seven
title: May 2014 - February 2016
pagenum: 254; title: Index
pagenum: 271