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The Lear Diaries

By Brian Cox

The Lear Diaries

By Brian Cox

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One of the most frank and authentic accounts yet written of the pressures placed on today's stars King Lear is perhaps the most challenging role in the Shakespearian canon. In 1991, directed by Deborah Warner, Brian Cox gave a highly-acclaimed performance. In this compulsive account of a theatrical journey, Cox describes the rehearsal room investigation in the possibilities of the text in performance as the production toured to Bucharest and Tokyo, Cairo and Paris in the wake of Perestroika and with the Gulf War gathering momentum in the early '90s. But this is also a personal story; for Lear, like Hamlet is a part notorious for consuming it's players and Cox is not only separated from his family for months, but also trying to negotiate a window in the storm to get married as he plays the character of an old man, rejected by his daughters and friends and sunk in madness...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
1996-04-01
Publication Date:
2007-05-01
Publisher:
Methuen Drama
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0413698807
ISBN13:
9780413698803
Weight:
396 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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