KING LEAR - Performance adaptations as either films or plays
- Created by: S_F
- Created on: 04-06-22 19:06
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- Film versions of 'King Lear'
- Trevor Nunn
- dark symbolically
- Lear is portrayed as both a majestic, childish and mad old man
- Cordelia is dressed in white
- Edgar seems to look intelligent, gullible and naive (he is carrying a book and wearing glasses)
- The fool in this version is developed with a lot of pathos: with emotions
- When the fool speaks, the camera goes onto Lear looking pensive - maybe realising there are truths in what he says
- Goneril is visibily pained when her father lauches into an attack on her
- Lear clings onto his crown showing his desperation at having to hold onto his power
- Edmund is portrayed as being more attractive than Edgar physically suggesting that all humans are flawed and we are attracted to those that share those flaws
- Kent, Albany and Edgar are seen holding their hands up to the heavens and praying for Cordelia to be alive yet Lear enters with her dead in his arms. It shows that the Gods are not answering their pleas
- Andrew McCullough paints a riveting portrait of the ageing Lear
- Peter Brook's version is in black and white with an emphasis on black
- Edwin Sherin - this is the only version of an actual staged production. The audience is audible and give a sense of life
- Trevor Nunn
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