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Article: Sell us your show: King Lear - The Pantomime
- Article from:
- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 5, 2008
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King Lear's not the most obvious candidate for panto treatment,
is it?
No it's not, but why can't tragedy be a laugh? It was born out of
doing Hamlet as a pantomime five years ago. We thought, what can we
do next? And King Lear has got ugly sisters [Goneril and Regan] so
we just took it from there. We've got a panto villain, Edmund, crazy
ridiculous costumes, lots and lots of hideous jokes, and lots of
asides to the audience, and "look behind you"s. We even put in a
Queen Lear for a laugh. We just thought King Lear had to be a hen-
pecked hubby. And we've got two mad doctors, and a bear, who just
appears to abuse Lear. We've got a bit of The X-Factor in there too.
Er, pardon?
Well, King ...
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