King Lear

Press night

20.04.1936

Venue

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Cast

Role and name

• Lear

  Ayrton, Randle

• Regan

  Bent, Buena

• Goneril

  Couper, Barbara,

• Edmund

  Dale, James,

• Duke of Albany

  Eccles, Donald,

• Oswald

  Gadsby, C Rivers,

• Edgar

  Glenville, Peter,

• Servant

  Howard, Trevor,

• Duke of Cornwall

  Howlett, Stanley,

• Cordelia

  Iden, Rosalind,

• Earl of Gloucester

  Maxon, Eric,

• King of France

  Raikes, Raymond,

• Physician

  Souper, Gerald Kay,

• Fool

  Wilkinson, Geoffrey,

• Earl of Kent

  Wolfit, Donald,

• Duke of Burgundy

  Wooland, Norman,

Creative

Role and name

• Music by

  Bernard, Anthony

• Designer

  Komisarjevsky, Theodore

• Director

  Komisarjevsky, Theodore

• Playwright

  Shakespeare, William