Available onlineTheatre games, workshops & rehearsals
(page 2 of 4)(Part of an online exhibition created by OU Associate Lecturer Brendan Jackson in 2014)
| Clip 7: | A361 King Lear workshop 1 |
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| Duration: | 00:05:29 |
| Date: | 1984 |
The energy and freedom released by these theatre games will only bear fruit when it is married to the language of Shakespeare’s text. Here academics have much to offer, as well as the director - and, indeed, the actors themselves. The detail in which the language is examined is perhaps astonishing. In this clip we see John Russell Brown working with an actor on the opening scene of the Tragedy, King Lear: the ‘Declaration Scene’ (Clip 7), as it is commonly known. Note Brown’s emphasis on syntax and versification as well as irony, and Glover’s identification of the significance of one word: Shakespeare scripted King Lear to speak, not of his hidden purpose, but of his ‘darker purpose.’
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