GREEN ROOM THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS KING LEAR AND THE DRESSER FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL COACHELLA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
King Lear aficionados will have a field day when Green Room Theatre Company presents two plays - one Elizabethan classic and one modern Broadway hit - that both explore Shakespeare's tragic theme of aging and the dissolution of character.
The cast of seventeen is led by many of the desert's finest Shakespearean actors. It includes Desert Theatre League award-winners Barry Cutler, Derrik Lewis, Garnett Smith, and June August under the direction of John Alex Houlton.
The actors bring to vivid life the story of an aging king who foolishly decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters – and lives to regret it. In parallel runs the story of the King’s chief minister, the Earl of Gloucester, who has two sons. One son, Edmund, is illegitimate; he accuses his brother Edgar of plotting to kill their father Gloucester.
Passions run high as Lear goes mad from his daughters' betrayal, and Gloucester plays a terrible price to discover the same about his sons. Since Ronald Harwood's Broadway hit The Dresser in 1979, King Lear has inspired two other best-selling works: Akira Kurosawa's film Ran (1985) and Jane Smiley's novel A Thousand Acres (2003).
King Lear will be followed in the Coachella Shakespeare Festival by The Dresser on
Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18.
King Lear aficionados will have a field day when Green Room Theatre Company presents two plays - one Elizabethan classic and one modern Broadway hit - that both explore Shakespeare's tragic theme of aging and the dissolution of character.
The cast of seventeen is led by many of the desert's finest Shakespearean actors. It includes Desert Theatre League award-winners Barry Cutler, Derrik Lewis, Garnett Smith, and June August under the direction of John Alex Houlton.
The actors bring to vivid life the story of an aging king who foolishly decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters – and lives to regret it. In parallel runs the story of the King’s chief minister, the Earl of Gloucester, who has two sons. One son, Edmund, is illegitimate; he accuses his brother Edgar of plotting to kill their father Gloucester.
Passions run high as Lear goes mad from his daughters' betrayal, and Gloucester plays a terrible price to discover the same about his sons. Since Ronald Harwood's Broadway hit The Dresser in 1979, King Lear has inspired two other best-selling works: Akira Kurosawa's film Ran (1985) and Jane Smiley's novel A Thousand Acres (2003).
King Lear will be followed in the Coachella Shakespeare Festival by The Dresser on
Friday and Saturday, May 17 and 18.
Summer Conservatory 2019
June 19th- July 26th
We are pleased to announce our upcoming
Summer Theatre production of Sister Act!!
Auditions (Round 2) Saturday, May 4th
More information coming soon!!
Join Artistic Director David Catanzarite on a trip from
Paris to the Pyrenees April 18, 2019 - April 28, 2019!
Head to our travel page for more information.
Paris to the Pyrenees April 18, 2019 - April 28, 2019!
Head to our travel page for more information.
