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Young Vic 97 Season

King Lear

Opening Date: 2 July 1997
Theatre: Young Vic

"In Pawel Dobrzycki's bare, limbo-land setting, with delapidated steel towers and grand central doors, ranged against Gloucester's poor, paraffin-heated homestead, Kaut-Howson creates an outlandish, nightmare world." Nicholas De Jongh, Evening Standard, 3.7.97

William Shakespeare Playwright
Young Vic and KP Productions Theatre company
Helena Kaut-Howson Director
Jenny Tiramani Designer
Pawel Dobrzycki designer/lighting
Jennie Cane original lighting
Paul Bull Sound
Boleslaw Rawski Music
Nicholas Cavaliere Oswald
Jeremy Brudenell Edmund
Jonas Finlay Burgundy/Curan
Michael Hodgson King of France/Gentleman
Kathryn Hunter Lear
Colin McCormack Kent
Marcello Magni Fool
Robert Pickavance Gloucester
Glyn Pritchard Cornwall
Gabrielle Reidy Regan
Simon Roberst Edgar
Kate Seaward Goneril
Hayley Carmichael Cordelia
David Acton Albany
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King Lear 97
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