2014 Production Quotes Flashcards
He’s ashamed
Of meeting her - SRB
The way he treats
Goneril is unspeakable - Simon Russell Beale
They don’t get a
Chance to reconcile - SRB
They were all different
In their various ways - SRB
He loves one of
Them without condition - SRB
The atmosphere
Is one of suspicion and paranoia - Tom Brooke
In this awful world it is becoming
That the death of a minor function of an old mad king is not significant - SRB
The play represents
Every single regime based on torture that’s ever existed - SRB
A torture
Scene relatable to all ages - Steven Boxer
Edgar is ‘in the
Court but not really interested in the court’ Steven Boxer
The father
Projects all his hopes on the bastard son - Steven Boxer
It’s only the people
In the play that allow themselves no control that learn - Kate Fleetwood
On the fool mocking Lear ‘ somebody given the allowance
And the power to do that is in a pretty powerful position’ Adrian Scarborough
In one action Lear
Opens the doorway to hell, in one vain action - Anna Maxwell Martin
He starts the play with
A catastrophically criminal act’ - SRB
