Shakespeare’s expose of social decay in King Lear has lost none of its relevance three hundred years later. We see the same human drama of greed, envy, ambition, and desire being enacted around us every day. We share Lear’s lack of insight, even though we’re not sure whether we’ll be delivered from darkness, as Lear was. This perception had prompted us to stage Raja Lear in 1986 in the hope that it might illuminate, at least to an extent, the dark times in which we live.
Credits –
Lights – Joy Sen
Music - Shekhar Biswas
Set and Costume Design – Arundhati Bandyopadhyay
Stage – Kamal Sengupta/Arup Dey
Translation and Direction - Salil Bandyopadhyay
Cast -
Lear - Salil Bandyopadhyay
Cordelia/Fool -Arundhati Bandyopadhyay
Kent – Sumanta Mukhopadhyay
Cornwall – Bijoy Chakraborty
Edgar – Diptosh Majumdar
Frans – Syamalendu Bandyopadhyay
Goneril – Pari Bandyopadhyay
Glostar – Biswarup Purakayastha
Albani – Debasish Roychoudhry
Edmund – Babu DattaRoy
Oswald – Bidyut Chakraborty
Burgundy – Arup De
Reegan – Sanjukta Basu
