King Lear, 1982, R.S.C.: Lear, Michael Gambon; Fool, Antony Sher; Director: Adrian Noble; Designer, Bob Crowley.

"Its supreme merit is in projecting the play, loud and clear, with all its dizzying profundities, grotesque confusions and obscure terrors, to a contemporary audience." Richard Findlater, Plays and Players 7.82

The production values were eclectic: the fool was a blend of the silent film Charlie Chaplin and a circus clown, while Lear was reduced to a character from Waiting for Godot. Much of it was genuinely comic, an effect rarely achieved in most of the gloomy productions typical of this play. HMR. Courtesy of the Designing Shakespeare Collection of AHDS Performing Arts at: http.//.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/