King Lear: The Podcast Series
2 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Shakespeare's King Lear Abridged
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The aged King Lear decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters and gets in conflict with the youngest, most truthful, and loyal daughter, Cordelia. After banishing her, he finds no repose and respect among his other daughters, Goneril and Regan, and is abandoned in the wilderness. Losing his reputation as king, turning senile during a storm, left with only his loyal servants, Lear gains an understanding of the essence in life. All the while, Gloucester’s bastard son Edmund, working with Lear’s traitorous daughters, schemes against his brother Edgar in order to gain his birthright.
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Created in association with The Liberal Arts College Theatre Society of Concordia University.
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Director: Antonina Morris
Producer and co-director: Aleah P. Carreau
Production Assistant: Soyoung Park
Sound recording and effects: Antonina Morris & Aleah P. Carreau
Editing: Aleah P. Carreau
Music: Aliyah Campuzano
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CAST
Aleah P. Carreau as King Lear
Soyoung Park as The Fool
Olivia Kearvell-Jobin as Kent
Duncan Bain as Edgar
Jeffrey Talbot Ronald as Edmund
Bryan Lee as Gloucester
Alejandra Malo Monsalve as Goneril
Katia Stapleton as Regan
Aliyah Campuzano as Cordelia
Diego Caruana as Cornwall
Antonina Morris as Albany
Laura Quenneville as Oswald
Evelyn Chan as The Gentlewoman and 1st servant
Charlotte Herie as The Messenger and 3rd servant
Valentina Salas as The Doctor and The Captain
Miguel Gosselin as The Old Man and 2nd servant
Zahin Kabir as Burgundy and The Herald
Nicholas Bailey as King of France and The Narrator
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Cover Photography: Laura Kopp
Cover edit and design: Aleah P. Carreau
Costumes: Yasmine Nowroozi and Aleah P. Carreau
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Episodes
King Lear: The Podcast Series - Episode 2
October 31, 2021 18:21 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBAfter being fooled by Edmund, Gloucester decides to pursue Edgar and punish him. Edgar runs away and disguises himself as a crazy beggar named “poor Tom.” Kent fights with Oswald, for he insulted Lear’s dignity, and gets put into the stocks by Regan and Cornwall. When King Lear sees Kent punished in a humiliating manner and finds out that his daughter and son-in-law placed him there, King Lear is furious and runs off to the woods. A storm brews.
King Lear: The Podcast Series - Episode 1
October 06, 2021 01:39 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBKing Lear divides his kingdom amongst his three daughters, and is seemingly betrayed by his youngest daughter, Cordelia. Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester, pits his father and his brother, Edgar, against each other. Goneril confronts her father about his disruptive knights as he begins his descent into madness.