Simon Webb as King Lear
KING LEAR
by William Shakespeare
February 23rd - March 17th, 2012 at The Havana Theatre
A production of the Honest Fishmongers
DIRECTOR Kevin Bennett
SET DESIGNER Shizuka Kai
COSTUME DESIGNER Christopher David Gauthier
ORIGINAL MUSIC Benjamin Elliott
CHOREOGRAPHER Lisa Goebel
STAGE MANAGER Susan Currie
Cast:
KENT David Bloom
GONERIL Renee Bucciarelli
OSWALD/Duke of BURGUNDY Chris Cochrane
EDMUND Evan Frayne
CORDELIA/FIRST SERVANT Katherine Gauthier
GLOUCESTER Anthony F. Ingram
FOOL/King of FRANCE Sebastian Kroon
EDGAR Julie McIsaac
LEAR'S SOLDIER/OTHERS Adele Noronha
CORNWALL Ashley O'Connell
ALBANY Joel Stephanson
REGAN Emma Slipp
LEAR Simon Webb
LEAR takes place in a dark world. Bestial, pagan, both wholly unnatural and yet fully natural. Children and parents turn against each other, and yet the only light in the play comes from children (or fools) who love their parents and are loved in return.
Fur (& fur that looks like feathers), leather and snakeskin, textured knits and sheers blended. Each character had an animal token, chosen for it's traits (but possibly not the ones we are used to).
Director Kevin Bennett both stripped the play down, focusing hard on the clarity of the text while at the same time unleashing its fury at close range on an audience forced to become part of it, sitting not outside but within the world created by set designer Shizuka Kai. The costumes attempted to echo that, and the dark fairy tale that is Lear, at once inviting the senses to touch the fabrics on display, and also unnerving them with a riot of juxtapositions.
1st set of Photos by Emily Cooper
Please click on photo to see it full sized.
by William Shakespeare
February 23rd - March 17th, 2012 at The Havana Theatre
A production of the Honest Fishmongers
DIRECTOR Kevin Bennett
SET DESIGNER Shizuka Kai
COSTUME DESIGNER Christopher David Gauthier
ORIGINAL MUSIC Benjamin Elliott
CHOREOGRAPHER Lisa Goebel
STAGE MANAGER Susan Currie
Cast:
KENT David Bloom
GONERIL Renee Bucciarelli
OSWALD/Duke of BURGUNDY Chris Cochrane
EDMUND Evan Frayne
CORDELIA/FIRST SERVANT Katherine Gauthier
GLOUCESTER Anthony F. Ingram
FOOL/King of FRANCE Sebastian Kroon
EDGAR Julie McIsaac
LEAR'S SOLDIER/OTHERS Adele Noronha
CORNWALL Ashley O'Connell
ALBANY Joel Stephanson
REGAN Emma Slipp
LEAR Simon Webb
LEAR takes place in a dark world. Bestial, pagan, both wholly unnatural and yet fully natural. Children and parents turn against each other, and yet the only light in the play comes from children (or fools) who love their parents and are loved in return.
Fur (& fur that looks like feathers), leather and snakeskin, textured knits and sheers blended. Each character had an animal token, chosen for it's traits (but possibly not the ones we are used to).
Director Kevin Bennett both stripped the play down, focusing hard on the clarity of the text while at the same time unleashing its fury at close range on an audience forced to become part of it, sitting not outside but within the world created by set designer Shizuka Kai. The costumes attempted to echo that, and the dark fairy tale that is Lear, at once inviting the senses to touch the fabrics on display, and also unnerving them with a riot of juxtapositions.
1st set of Photos by Emily Cooper
Please click on photo to see it full sized.
