*Eery sounds of rain and storm*
My name's
Anna Girvan, I'm the assistant director of King Lear.
At the beginning of King Lear
we see the King marrying his daughter Cordelia off,
*rumbling thunder*
and during the ceremony he announces that he is going to divide his kingdom into
three between his three daughters, Goneril,
Regan and Cordelia. He tells them that he
will give the biggest slice of the kingdom
to who loves him the most. Regan and Goneril
flatter the King, and win their third of the
land, but Cordelia decides not to play the
game. This displeases her father. He sends
her away and she goes to marry the King of
France. He then lives between the two sisters'
households, Regan and Goneril, with his 100 knights.
*Thunder rolls*
They're not too happy with their
retired father doing this, so they send him away.
He decides to go out into the storm,
where he descends into a sort of madness,
losing grip on reality. During this time,
his kingdom is falling apart while the two
sisters are trying to rule it. It escalates
to a dramatic and bloody conclusion.
