 | Stacy Keach and Edward Gero in King Lear
(© Liz Lauren) |
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of King Lear, directed by Robert Falls, has extended its run until July 26.
The production -- which originated at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2006 -- stars Stacy Keach in the title role, along with Kim Martin-Cotten (Goneril), Kate Arrington (Regan), Laura Odeh (Cordelia), Andrew Long (Albany), Chris Genenbach (Gloucester), Aubrey Deeker (King of France), Edward Gero (Gloucester), Joaquin Torres (Edgar), Jonno Roberts (Edmund), Steve Pickering (Kent), Howard Witt (Fool), and Dieterich Gray (Oswald).
The cast will also feature Hugh Nees, Gary Neal Johnson, Conrad Feninger, David Blixt, Norman Aronovic, Stacey Cabaj, Billy Finn, Dan Istrate, Dan Lawrence, William LeDent, Matt Baxter Luceno, Brian MacDonald, Carol Randolph, Jeffrey Scott, Amanda Tudor, and Scott Hamilton Westerman.
The creative team includes Walt Spangler (sets), Ana Kuzmanic (costumes), Michael Philippi (lighting), Richard Woodbury (sound), and Rick Sordelet (fight direction).
For more information, visit www.shakespearetheatre.org.
RE: STC's King Lear Starring Stacy Keach Extends Until July 26
Highly sexualized treatment of Shakespeares great work dwarfs an amusing pyrotechnical, but misguided portrayal by Mr. Keach, who opens the first scene by grabbing the buns of his daughter Regan with lascivious glee.
The settings and sidebars include the taking of soft and hard drugs; and the violence is prolonged and homo-erotic, featuring strangling and smothering. It is an American take on German Expressionism, complete with heavy metal costumes and rap. Lears descent into madness is capped with a tasteless Hora dance.
Keach is a great actor ; but the press sugggests that he was involved in the thematics and staging. It is sad to see him so involved in an all-too-typical attempt at the anti-Puritanism theatrics which passes for drama in the American theater. Unhappily, this production is cartoonish in the vein of Mike Hammer.
posted by britcher on 07/11/2009 at 10:15:00 PM
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