Tragedies such as King Lear are 'universal and resonate with people around the world', said lead actor Ahmad Saatchian ...

Since before the 1200s, a UK city has sent a lamprey pie to the reigning monarch.

The construction hoarding around the former Debenhams in Gloucester is being removed. The University of Gloucestershire's City Campus at the 20,000sqm former department store in Kings Square is due to ...

A musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play “King Lear” is currently on stage at Tehran's City Theater Complex.

Apparently a doddering old king, Lear is an attractive figure to pin ... Regan and Goneril goad Regan’s husband Cornwall to put out Gloucester’s eyes in a shocking paroxysm of onstage violence.

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... It may be infantile to expect video-nasty relish in the gouging of Gloucester’s eyes, but something more than the ...

Stuart Graham as the Earl of Gloucester and Fiona Bell as the Earl of Kent. Roxana Silbert and Stuart Graham joined Sean in studio for RTÉ Arena - listen above. King Lear is at the Gate Theatre ...

King Lear is often regarded as Shakespeare's greatest ... At the beginning of Lear, the Duke of Gloucester argues that recent eclipses of the sun and moon "portend no good to us" and the result ...

Strong with verse text. EARL OF GLOUCESTER (he/him, 40s-50s, open ethnicity) - Nobleman close to KING LEAR. Father of EDMUND and EDGAR. A man of both great emotional depth and wit. Loyal and self ...

My mind went to Gloucester’s astrological pearl-clutching ... All of this could make for a savage and mystical King Lear, a much-needed fable about how unchecked political power creates ...

ADVERTISEMENT King Lear typically runs to about three hours ... illuminate the play’s most memorable tableaux, like Gloucester (Doug Colling) having his eyes plucked out (fair warning: as ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though conspicuously young — everyone’s young, even Branagh, whose not ...