King Lear

Press night

18.08.1959

Venue

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Cast

Role and name

• Edgar's Trumpeter

  Allaby, Arthur

• Unnamed parts

  Anderson, Georgine

• Regan

  Baddeley, Angela

• Goneril

  Bidmead, Stephanie

• Servant

  Bizley, Roger

• Knight

  Blakemore, Michael

• Unnamed parts

  Borromel, Charles

• Servant

  Buck, David,

• Cordelia

  Caldwell, Zoe

• Servant

  Cox, Michael Graham,

• Unnamed parts

  Cruise, Christopher,

• King of France

  De Souza, Edward,

• Unnamed parts

  Dennis, Jon

• Duke of Burgundy

  Dotrice, Roy

• Gloucester's Tenant

  Eccles, Donald,

• Unnamed parts

  Edwards, Mavis,

• Edgar

  Finney, Albert

• Doctor

  Gilbert, Kenneth,

• Duke of Albany

  Glover, Julian,

• Duke of Cornwall

  Hardwick, Paul

• Edmund

  Hardy, Robert,

• Unnamed parts

  Hawtrey, Nicholas,

• Unnamed parts

  Henry, Norman,

• Fool

  Holm, Ian

• Unnamed parts

  Landor, Edna,

• King Lear

  Laughton, Charles

• Earl of Gloucester

  Luckham, Cyril Alexander Garland

• Edmund's Captain

  Mason, Peter,

• Unnamed parts

  Meaden, Dan,

• Earl of Kent

  Nicholls, Anthony,

• Unnamed parts

  Rigg, Diana,

• Regan Soldier

  Rudd, Richard,

• Unnamed parts

  Russell, Robert,

• Unnamed parts

  Scoble, Michael,

• Messenger

  Smith, Don,

• Herald

  Spencer, Roy,

• Unnamed parts

  Taylor, Malcolm,

• Standard Bearer

  Thomas, Dave,

• Curan

  Thorne, Stephen,

• Herald's Trumpeter

  Wheeler, Stanley,

• Oswald

  Woodthorpe, Peter,

Creative

Role and name

• Fight Arranger

  Hepton, Bernard,

• Music by

  Hopkins, Antony,

• Designer

  Motley,

• Light Designer

  Northen, Michael,

• Director

  Shaw, Glen Byam,

• Playwright

  Shakespeare, William