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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
Comedie de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Version Français Jean Desprats
Direction Hervé Loichemol
Stage/Light/Sounds Seth Tillett
Costumes Nicole Rauscher/Seth Tillett
Audio tech Michel Zurcher
King Lear Patrick le Moeuf
Cordelia/Fool Camille Figuero
Goneril Anne Durant
Regan Brigitte Rosset
Edmond JeanAlois Belbachir
Edgar/Poor Tom Frank Arnaudon
Gloughcester Michel Kullman
Kent Ahmed Belbachir
Cornwall Benjamin Kraatz
Albany Laurent Deshusses
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interiors and exteriors melt into each other
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insubstantial palaces..
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are only wood
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the whole wall and rake begin to spin around
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lightening strikes in sync with the pounded sheetmetal
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the wall falls to reveal a flowery heath, tinted black
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the central heath (and those on it) plunges into blackness
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the last palace scenes play out at the edges
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a few feathers fall as Gloucester listens..
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Gloucester leaps from the stage
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Bronx shelter
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trial of the three cans
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for the war the stage spins again
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