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2011 Spring Season APR 2011 Alexandre Arrechea, The Wind on My Face, 2010 Published by: BAM 2011 Spring Season sponsor: BAM 2011 Spring Season Brooklyn Academy of Music Donmar Warehouse Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Michael Grandage, Artistic Director Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Nick Giles, Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer present The Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear By William Shakespeare Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Apr 28—30; May 3—7, 11—14, 17—21, 24—28, 31; three hours, Jun 1—4 at 7:30pm including one Apr 30 at 2pm; May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; Jun 5 at 3pm intermission Director Michael Grandage Set and costume designer Christopher Oram Lighting designer Neil Austin Composer and sound designer Adam Cork Casting Anne McNulty CDG BAM 2011 Theater sponsor: BAM 2011 Spring Season sponsor: Leadership support for King Lear provided by Frederick Iseman and Donald R. Mullen Jr. Additional support provided by Alan Jones & Ashley Garrett and The Laura Pels Foundation. Major support for theater at BAM provided by Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, Corinthian Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust, Frederick Loewe Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The SHS Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Inc, and Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. King Lear CAST (in order of speaking) Earl of Kent Michael Hadley Earl of Gloucester Paul Jesson Edmund Alec Newman King Lear Derek Jacobi Goneril Gina McKee Regan Justine Mitchell Cordelia Pippa Bennett-Warner Duke of Albany Tom Beard Duke of Cornwall Gideon Turner Duke of Burgundy Stefano Braschi King of France Ashley Zhangazha Edgar Gwilym Lee Oswald Amit Shah The Fool Ron Cook Gentleman Harry Attwell Old Servant Derek Hutchinson PRODUCTION Associate Director Titas Halder Associate Designer Richard Kent Associate Lighting Designer Richard Howell Associate Sound Designer Sebastian Frost Production Manager Patrick Molony American Stage Manager Arthur Gaffin Deputy Stage Manager Mary O’Hanlon Assistant Stage Manager Rhiannon Harper Costume Supervisor Stephanie Arditti Fight Director Terry King Rehearsal Photography Marc Brenner Production Photography Johan Persson Text Consultant Russell Jackson Wardrobe Mistress Morag Pirrie Set Constructed by Bowerwood Productions Set Painted by Richard Nutbourne Make Up Provided by M•A•C Costumes Made by Lynn Clark, Sue Coates, Judith Darracott, Sasha Keir, Hilary Marshner, Liz Poole Millinery by Jane Smith Design Assistant David Woodhead The actors are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The American stage manager is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. King Lear Photo: Derek Jacobi, by Johan Persson THE PLAY King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. When, unlike her sisters, Cordelia refuses to make a public declaration of love for her father, she is disinherited and, without a dowry, is married by the King of France. The Earl of Kent defends her and is banished by Lear. The two elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, and their husbands inherit the kingdom. Gloucester, deceived by his bastard son, Edmund, disinherits his legitimate son, Edgar, who is forced to go into hiding to save his life. Lear, now stripped of his power, quarrels with both Goneril and Regan about the conditions on which he is to stay in their households. In a rage he goes out into the stormy night, accompanied by his Fool and by Kent, now disguised as a servant. They encounter Edgar, disguised as a mad beggar. Gloucester goes to help Lear but is betrayed by Edmund and captured by Regan and Cornwall who, as a punishment, put out his eyes. Lear is taken secretly to Dover, where Cordelia has landed with a French army. The blind Gloucester meets, but does not recognize, Edgar, who leads him to Dover. Lear and Cordelia are reconciled but in the ensuing battle are captured by the sisters’ forces. Goneril and Regan are in love with Edmund, who encourages them both. Discovering this, Goneril’s husband Albany forces Edmund to defend himself against the charge of treachery. A mysterious figure appears to challenge Edmund and, after fatally wounding him, reveals himself to be Edgar. News comes that Goneril has poisoned Regan and then committed suicide. Before dying, Edmund reveals that he has ordered the deaths of Lear and Cordelia. He attempts to repeal the order but it is too late. Shakespeare (1564—1616) wrote King Lear in 1606, the year of its first stage production, and during the period when he wrote Othello, Macbeth, and Measure for Measure. Who’s Who HARRY ATTWELL STEFANO BRASCHI (Gentleman) (Duke of Burgundy) For the Donmar: Hamlet Training: LAMDA and Yale (also New York), Twelfth University. Theater: includes Night. Theater: includes Danton’s Death (NT), This Hamlet (Orange Tree). Much Is True (Theatre503), Film: includes Playboy. Warm (Nordland Theatre, Radio: includes Pride and Prejudice. Norway), and The Meta- physics of Breakfast (New York Fringe Festival). TOM BEARD Television: includes Sherlock, Secret Diary of a (Duke of Albany) Call Girl, Come Fly with Me, and The Training: Webber Douglas Persuasionists. Academy of Dramatic Art. Theater: includes Apologia RON COOK (Bush); Tusk Tusk (Royal (The Fool) Court); For Services For the Donmar: Hamlet Rendered (Watermill); (also Elsinore/New York), Private Lives (New Wolsey); Nelson (Nuffield); Twelfth Night, Helpless, The Holy Terror (Duke of York’s); Three Sisters Juno and the Paycock, and (Playhouse); The Tempest, Pericles, Henry VI Glengarry Glen Ross. Parts I, II, & III, Richard III (RSC); Macbeth Theater: includes A (Sheffield Crucible); Hamlet (Gielgud/UK tour); Northern Odyssey (Live Theatre); The Seafarer, She Stoops to Conquer (Queen’s/UK tour); Howard Katz, Machine Wreckers, Black Snow Becket (Haymarket/UK tour); and A Madhouse (NT); Singer (Tricycle); Insignificance (Chichester in Goa (UK tour). Film: includes Salmon Fishing Festival); Vassa (Almeida); Art (Wyndham’s); in the Yemen, Hereafter, Vanity Fair, and Bridget Prayers of Sherkin (Old Vic); Our Country’s Jones’ Diary. Television: includes Pete Versus Good, The Recruiting Officer, Cloud Nine, The Life, Hustle, Kingdom, Wallander, Ten Days to Arbor (Royal Court); Slavs, Ecstasy, How I Got War, Midsomer Murders, George Gently, The That Story (Hampstead); Faith Healer (Dublin Fixer, Whistleblowers, Clapham Junction, Silent Abbey/Royal Court/Long Wharf); A Jovial Crew, Witness, Party Animals, Spooks, Robin Hood, The Odyssey, The Dillen, The Crucible, A The Government Inspector, Rosemary and Winter’s Tale (RSC); and Three Sisters Thyme, Holby City, and Poirot. (Greenwich/Albery). Film: includes Hot Fuzz; Confetti; On a Clear Day; The Merchant of PIPPA Venice; Thunderbirds; 24 Hour Party People; BENNETT-WARNER Charlotte Gray; Lucky Break; Chocolat; Quills; (Cordelia) Topsy-Turvy; Secrets and Lies; and The Cook, the Training: RADA. Theater: Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Television: includes Crocodile includes Garrow’s Law, Red Riding, Little Dorrit, (Riverside); Ruined The Diary of Anne Frank, Doctor Who, Silent (Almeida); Victory (Bath Witness, Funland, Burn Up, Brunel: The Great Theatre Royal); Caroline, or Ship, The Lost Prince, Richard III, and The Change (NT); and The Lion King (Lyceum). Singing Detective. Television: includes Lenny Henry in Pieces, Holby City, Lewis, Come Fly with Me, and Case Histories. Radio: includes The White Devil. Who’s Who MICHAEL HADLEY US tour); Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep); The (Earl of Kent) Prince of Homburg (RSC/Lyric); The Critic Training: Bristol Old Vic. (Manchester Royal Exchange); Family Reunion For the Donmar: Hamlet (RSC); Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek by (also New York), Piaf (also Jowl); Villette, Way Upstream, Leonce and Lena Vaudeville), Othello, The (Sheffield Crucible); Rebecca, Jekyll and Hyde Vortex, and Little Foxes. (Lyceum, Edinburgh); Under Milk Wood, Theater: includes The Arcadia, Napoli Milionaria, Richard III, King Tempest (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Lear (NT); The Churchill Play, Electra, Titus Heroes (Watermill); Coriolanus, Canterbury Andronicus, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure Tales, Richard III, As You Like It (RSC); The for Measure, Julius Caesar (RSC); and Seagull (Mercury); As You Like It, Don Carlos Coriolanus (Kick Theatre). Film: includes PU- (Sheffield & West End); House and Garden 239, V for Vendetta, Stage Beauty, Being Julia, (Royal & Derngate); Search & Destroy (New Iris, and The Cormorant. Television: includes End); Love’s Work, Intimate Death, Une Marple, Spooks, Doctors, Forgiven, Midsomer Tempête (Gate); The Jew of Malta (Almeida); Murders, London’s Burning, Waiting, Chef, and Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Measure for The Bill. Measure, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Birmingham Rep); DEREK JACOBI The Elephant Man, A Small Family Business (King Lear) (Leicester Haymarket); The Beaux’ Stratagem, For the Donmar: Twelfth The Way of the World (Cambridge Theatre Night, A Voyage Round Company); The Woman in Black (Fortune/UK My Father (also tour); Measure for Measure, and Henry IV Parts I Wyndham’s). Theater: & II (English Touring Theatre). Film: includes The includes The Fairy Queen Boat That Rocked, Unrelated, Three Blind Mice, (Washington, DC); Don The Best Pair of Legs in the Business, All Carlos, The Tempest Coppers Are, and They Ran Before the