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	[[The Coloured Wall]] opened on 26th March 1968, so the composition of [[King Lear]] shortly predates it, and the press night for the production was held on the 10th April 1968.<ref name=SBT>[http://www.calmview.eu/shakespearebirthplacetrust/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=KLE196804 ''King Lear'', Stratford, 1968] in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's database of performances.</ref>		[[The Coloured Wall]] opened on 26th March 1968, so the composition of [[King Lear]] shortly predates it, and the press night for the production was held on the 10th April 1968.<ref name=SBT>[http://www.calmview.eu/shakespearebirthplacetrust/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=KLE196804 ''King Lear'', Stratford, 1968] in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's database of performances.</ref>

	The RSC web site says that it was directed by [[Trevor Nunn]] and that “The battle in Act 5 [was] a slow-motion ballet, accompanied by deafening noise.”<ref>The Royal Shakespeare Company's [http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/shakespeare/plays/king-lear/1936-2007.aspx King Lear productions, 1936-2007].</ref>		The RSC web site says that it was directed by [[Trevor Nunn]]<ref>In 1968. Trevor Nunn also directed King Lear at the RSC in 1976 and 2007.</ref> and that “The battle in Act 5 [was] a slow-motion ballet, accompanied by deafening noise.”<ref>The Royal Shakespeare Company's [http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/shakespeare/plays/king-lear/1936-2007.aspx King Lear productions, 1936-2007].</ref>

	Reviews of the productions appeared in:<ref name=SBT/>		Reviews of the productions appeared in:<ref name=SBT/>

Martinwguy at 13:39, 23 November 2015

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The draft of a [[Kaleidophon]] flyer for [[The Coloured Wall]] says that:
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“[Kaleidophon] recently completed tracks for the forthcoming 'Royal Shakespeare Company' production of [[King Lear]] at Stratford-upon-Avon”<ref>[[DD100908]]: Draft of [[Kaleidophon]] flyer for [[The Coloured Wall]].</ref>
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[[The Coloured Wall]] opened on 26th March 1968, so the composition of [[King Lear]] shortly predates it, and the press night for the production was held on the 10th April 1968.<ref name=SBT>[http://www.calmview.eu/shakespearebirthplacetrust/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=KLE196804 ''King Lear'', Stratford, 1968] in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's database of performances.</ref>

The RSC web site says that it was directed by [[Trevor Nunn]] and that “The battle in Act 5 [was] a slow-motion ballet, accompanied by deafening noise.”<ref>The Royal Shakespeare Company's [http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/shakespeare/plays/king-lear/1936-2007.aspx King Lear productions, 1936-2007].</ref>

Reviews of the productions appeared in:<ref name=SBT/>
<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><th>Date</th><th>Source</th><th>Reviewer</th></tr>
<tr><td>00/06/1968</td><td>Plays and Players</td><td>Roberts, Peter</td></tr>
<tr><td>01/07/1968</td><td>Morning Advertiser</td><td>Tarran, Geoffrey</td></tr>
<tr><td>03/05/1968</td><td>Tribune</td><td>Jensen, Mike</td></tr>
<tr><td>08/05/1968</td><td>Queen</td><td>Holland, Mary</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Daily Mail</td><td>Lewis, Peter</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Liverpool Post</td><td>Tanner, Doreen</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Birmingham Mail</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Daily Express</td><td>Kretzmer, Herbert</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Evening Standard</td><td>Shulman, Milton</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Birmingham Post</td><td>Trewin, J C</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Financial Times</td><td>Young, B A</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Guardian</td><td>Evans, Gareth Lloyd</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Times</td><td>Wardle, Irving</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Oxford Mail</td><td>Chapman, Don</td></tr>
<tr><td>11/04/1968</td><td>Evening News</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>13/04/1968</td><td>Glasgow Herald</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>13/04/1968</td><td>Observer</td><td>Bryden, Ronald</td></tr>
<tr><td>14/04/1968</td><td>Sunday Times</td><td>Hobson, Harold</td></tr>
<tr><td>14/04/1968</td><td>Sunday Telegraph</td><td>Say, Rosemary</td></tr>
<tr><td>18/04/1968</td><td>Stage and Television Today</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>18/04/1968</td><td>Evesham Journal</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>19/04/1968</td><td>Jewish Chronicle</td><td>Landstone, Charles</td></tr>
<tr><td>19/04/1968</td><td>Oxford Times</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>24/04/1968</td><td>Punch</td><td>Kingston, Jeremy</td></tr>
<tr><td>25/04/1968</td><td>Listener</td><td>Jones, D A N</td></tr>
<tr><td>27/04/1968</td><td>Londoner</td><td>Baker, Roger</td></tr>
<tr><td>27/04/1968</td><td>Illustrated London News</td><td>Trewin, J C</td></tr>
</table>

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King Lear - Revision history

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