The Lear Diaries: The Story of the Royal National Theatre's Productions of Shakespeare's Richard III and King Lear (Diaries, Letters and Essays)

by Brian Cox (Author), Brian Cox (Author), B. Cox (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $30.63

  One of the most frank and authentic accounts yet written of the pressures placed on today's stars King Lear is perhaps the most challenging role in the Shakespearian canon. In 1991, directed by Deborah Warner, Brian Cox gave a highly-acclaimed performance. In this compulsive account of a theatrical journey, Cox describes the rehearsal room investigation in the possibilities of the text in performance as the production toured to Bucharest and Tokyo, Cairo and Paris in the wake of Perestroika and with the Gulf War gathering momentum in the early '90s. But this is also a personal story; for Lear, like Hamlet is a part notorious for consuming it's players and Cox is not only separated from his family for months, but also trying to negotiate a window in the storm to get married as he plays the character of an old man, rejected by his daughters and friends and sunk in madness...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $13.89

  In this account Brian Cox describes the rehearsals that created the National Theatre production of King Lear . The company also embarked on a year-long world tour as diverse as Bucharest and Tokyo, Cairo and Paris. The author considers the shifting sands of the play's meaning in so many countries. Brian Cox has also written Salem to Moscow and in 1990 won the International Theatre Institute Award for services to theatre.