The play ends with the voice of the Fool plaintively calling out for, searching for,…
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Lear: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanes, spout Till…
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Lear: Tell me, my daughters, Since now we will divest us both of rule, Interest…
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Goneril arrives on the scene and upbraids Lear for his highhanded behaviour. Cornwall and Regan…
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In a gesture of ultimate abjection, Lear spreads his angavastam / body-cloth (the long scarf…
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Loyal Gloucester upbraids the sisters for their mistreatment of their father, "Stop him, it's your…
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The storm. The Fool searching for Lear and Lear wailing about ungrateful people in despair.…
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The voice of Cordelia, calling, searching for the father. Cordelia appears during the storm to…
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Goneril continues her chastisement of Lear: "You are not fit to live in a palace,…
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Goneril's soliloquy: "I will send advance word to my sister. When he stays neither here…
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Lear's third entry, en route to Regan's castle, again riding and miming a chariot to…
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In front of Regan's castle: Oswald, who has arrived here with a letter from Goneril…
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Lear to Kent: "Did not my daughter protest that it (binding you up) was wrong?"…
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Regan tries to talk to Lear, seemingly more reasonable; she comes and sits next to…
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Lear's dirge like moan of grief when he finally realizes that his daughters are not…
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In an interlude led by the Fool a pungent critique is voiced: the Fool rushes…
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The Fool introduces the sub-plot, as the story of the rich and the fat ones,…
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Lear's second entry, with fanfare. He comes, as before, miming the motion and movements of…
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When Oswald complains about Lear to Goneril, this Lear, more irascible and physical than usual,…
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Regan does one better, she brings on the tears: "When I think of my father,…
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Cordelia, in this production has more than the usual words: her arguments against Lear have…
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Goneril and Regan immediately, and sycophantically, jump to the defense of Lear. They sharply rebuke…
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Kent intervenes in support of Cordelia: "She is speaking the truth, you should respect her,…
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Cordelia continues: "Why do my sisters have husbands, if they say they love you all?…
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The two elder sisters accuse Cordelia of angering the father and ruining his public ceremony.…
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Lear narrates his intent: "I wish to retire and will divide the kingdom / country…
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The two elder daughters enter announced by the Fool and to the accompaniment of a…
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Cordelia enters later, separately from her sisters and bows to Lear. This adaptation has a…
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Lear announces the love-test and the division of the country: "I want to hear with…
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Goneril / Kanaka's professtion of love and Lear is hugely, and literally, "tickled" by her…
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The Fool's rolls and somersaults bring him face to face with a Sentry who mockingly…
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Lear's entry is in the traditional mimetic fashion; he comes, heralded by drums and flutes,…
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A clip from the movie Titus by Julie Taymor based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. ACT…
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sequences include: Hamlet soliloquy, Hamlet's madness, Hamlet and Laertes duel scene, Gertrude's death, and Hamlet's…
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Lear's humilation turns to rage: he begins to curse the world and invokes a tempest,…
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Lear turns invitingly to Cordelia only to be hit by her "Nothing!" He almost loses…
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Prologue: Unlike the other two productions, this version of King Lear is an indigenisation of…
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He proceeds to act out the Fool, indulging in all the acrobatics of a fool:…
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BAMorg — May 18, 2009 — Jun 9—12 at 7:30pm at BAM Sabab / Sulayman…
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In Richard III "An Arab VIP", a documentary film crew follows a spectacular touring Arab…
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Ophelia's movements in the "mad scene" evoke those of the mechanized puppets used elsewhere in…
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