King Lear

The draft of a Kaleidophon flyer for The Coloured Wall says that:

“[Kaleidophon] recently completed tracks for the forthcoming 'Royal Shakespeare Company' production of King Lear at Stratford-upon-Avon”

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.

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.”

Reviews of the productions appeared in:

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

Availability

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