| Adaptor 1 |
Gardner, David
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| Date of First
Production |
1961 |
| Title |
King Lear |
| Alternate Title |
Inuit Lear
Eskimo Lear |
| Director |
David Gardner |
| Place of First
Production |
London, ON |
| Production
Company |
The Canadian Players Foundation |
| Technical
Design/Direction |
Setting and costume design: Herbert Whittaker
Fool's Song: Morris Surdin
Sound effects: Freddie Tudor
Fight staging: Jonathan White
Costumes created by Barbara Mattingly
Properties made by Frederick Nihda |
| Cast/Performers |
Kent: Mervyn Blake
Gloucester: Charles Palmer
Edmund: Henry Hovencamp
King Lear: William Hutt
Goneril: Tobi Weinberg
Regan: Maureen FitzGerald
Cordelia: Judith Coates
Burgundy, Fool: Herbert Foster
France, Lear's Knight, Curan: Rex Southgate
Edgar: David Renton
Oswald: Kenneth Wickes
Albany: Kenneth Pogue
Cornwall, Doctor, Captain: William Brydon |
| Performance
History |
company toured Canada and the United States |
| Publishing
and Multimedia |
*Gardner, David. King Lear. [Director's script] 1961. |
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*Gardner, David. King Lear. [Director's script] 1961.
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| Secondary
Materials |
*"A deep-freeze Lear in Eskimo land." Life Magazine. 51.20 (17 Nov. 1961): 198.
*Allison, Margaret. "With 'King Lear' Canadain Players Score a Hit." Bay City Times. [Michigan] 13 Jan. 1962: 2.
*"The Canadian Players' Foundation." [advertisement in the Crest Theatre Program] 1961(?).
*Crest Theatre. Telegram to David Gardner, Canadian Players Company. 23 Oct. 1961.
*Davies, Miranda. "Canadian Players Present Eskimo Version of Lear." Varsity. [Toronto] 27 Oct. 1961.
*Evans, Ronald. "Canadian Players' Preview: Arctic Lear." Toronto Telegram. 19 Oct. 1961.
*Gardner, David. "Canada's Eskimo Lear." Theatre History in Canada. 7.1 (Spring 1986): 99-118.
*Gardner, David. "The 1961-62 Eskimo Adaptation of King Lear." Unpublished paper. CASP Archives, U of Guelph, ON. 23 July 2003.
*Hicklin, Ralph. "King Lear Ranges From Good To Bad." The Globe and Mail. [Toronto] 25 Oct. 1961.
*Hocura, Ed. "Everybody, But Everybody, Has Something Coming Up." The Hamilton Spectator. 28 Oct. 1961: 10.
*Horler, Kathryn. "Cast Member Autographs Her Cast." The Telegram: World of Women. [Toronto] 1 Mar. 1962: 27.
*Jukes, Mary. "Once Over Lightly." Globe and Mail. [Toronto] Oct. 1961: 14.
*"King Lear." [house program] 1961-1962.
*"Lear in a Parka: Drama of Violence and Greed is Set in Canadian North." Star Weekly. [East St. Louis Illinois] 20 Jan. 1962: 33.
*Lyons, Bernard P. "Stratford Company Does Well By Bard." Port Huron Times Herald. [Michigan] 14 Jan. 1962: 2.
*McGee, C.E. "Shakespeare 'Canadiens' at the Stratford Festival." Shakespeare in Canada: 'a world elsewhere'?. Eds. Diana Brydon and Irena R. Makaryk. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 141-158.
*Michener, Wendy. "Odd Class of Style in Eskimo 'Lear.'" Toronto Daily Star. 25 Oct. 1961. N.pag.
*"Two Gala Performances by The Canadian Players." [advertisement for Crest Theatre productions] 1961.
*"Stars in our Midst: The performing arts thrive at Vic." VicReport (Winter 2000-2001): 5-9.
*Whittaker, Herbert. "Changing Scene Of Theatre." Globe and Mail. [Toronto] 30 Oct. 1961?.
*Whittaker, Herbert. "Eskimo King Lear Will Be Presented in the North." Globe and Mail. [Toronto] 12 Mar. 1962: 8.
*Whittaker, Herbert. "Twin Touring Troupes Bear Brave Banner." The Globe and Mail. 21 Oct. 1961: 13.
*"William Hutt." Star Weekly. 20 Jan. 1962: 33. |
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| Synopsis |
"This is the first time in the history of theatre that Shakespeare's monumental King Lear has been performed with an Arctic setting. This highly original concept lends great excitement to the performance and underlines the primitive struggle with human nature and the natural elements which is the very core of King Lear" (qtd. from "Two Gala Performances by The Canadian Players." 1961). |
| Keywords |
Aboriginal/First Nations
Non-traditional Casting
Professional |
| Adaptation
of |
King Lear |
| Entry Last Updated |
19May04 1:47PM |
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