WHEN:
October 26 - December 15, 2024
WHERE:
The Shed’s Griffin Theater
545 West 30th Street
between 10th and 11th Avenues
NY
CAST:
Mara Allen (Curan), Deborah Alli (Goneril), Raymond Anum (Burgundy), Saffron Coomber (Regan), Kenneth Branagh (King Lear), Doug Colling (Edgar), Stefan Brennan-Healy (France), Eleanor De Rohan (Kent), Chloe Fenwick‐Brown (Oswald), Joseph Kloska (Gloucester), Dylan Corbett-Bader (Edmund), Hughie O’Donnell (Cornwall), Caleb Obediah (Albany), and Jessica Revell (Cordelia/The Fool).
CREATIVE TEAM:
Rob Ashford (co-director), Jon Bausor (set and costume designer), Kenneth Branagh (co-director), Aletta Collins (choreographer), Nina Dunn (projection designer), Paul Keogan (lighting designer), Ben and Max Ringham (sound designers and composers), Lucy Skilbeck (co-director), and Bret Yount (fight director).
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“... Kenneth Branagh plays the title role in a new production of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the barbarous landscape of Ancient Britain. Featuring a cast of rising stars from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art co-directed by Rob Ashford, Branagh, and Lucy Skilbeck, this production releases the play’s power and turmoil in a fast-paced staging…”
