And in some respects, Trevor Nunn’s spectacular RSC production of “King ... as Gloucester’s bastard son, Edmund, is a consummate devil. But against the aching humanity of this Lear, even ...

Smack in the middle of Shakespeare’s King Lear, the Earl of Gloucester’s sweet, naïve son reaches rock bottom. Edgar’s been terribly tricked by his bastard half-brother; he’s disinherited ...

It all begins with aged King Lear, who decides to ask the question ... Meanwhile another dad, the Earl of Gloucester (Tim Keo), has problems with his good son Edgar and his illegitimate son ...

including festival alumnus Kurt Schauppner as King Lear, Molly Katelbach as Regan, Cooki Bilsborough as The Fool, Kevin Hayles as the Earl of Gloucester, Andrew Catlin as Edgar, aka Poor Tom ...

“King Lear” features two storylines. Each relates to the disintegration of the family. The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons, Edgar and Edmund. Edmund is a bastard, which means ...

What happens when a leader wants all the power and none of the responsibility? Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in ...

Harris, Michael Milligan, Patrick Page and Shirine Babb in “King Lear,” directed by Simon ... Craig Wallace’s noble Gloucester. It happens gruesomely in front of us, in the play’s most ...

William Devlin (King Lear)Rosalie Crutchley (Goneril)Nicolette Bernard (Regan)Ursula Howells (Cordelia)Alan Wheatley (Fool)Henry Oscar (Earl of Gloucester)Patrick Troughton (Edmund)Robert Harris ...

The question drives both the main plot and a supporting story in Shakespeare’s fiercely nihilistic King Lear ... s ostensibly secondary dad, the Earl of Gloucester. In the hands of Larry ...

For King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy ... Lear's fortunes are paralleled by those of the Earl of Gloucester, whose bastard son, Edmund, is scheming to inherit his estate by ...