King Lear
King Lear
By William Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane
Directed by Jim Fitzmorris
This production of King Lear was set in New Orleans in the early 1960’s. Lear was a politician, rather than a king. The style of the show resembled a classic mobster film.
These effects are the progression of the storm. Many of the thunder and lightning strikes are separate cues that were layered on top of these storms at specific moments for dramatic emphasis.
This is the sound of a party happening in the other room that is heard when the door opens.
This strange effect underscores Edgars transformation. The director wanted something reminiscent of carnival music.
The sound of a transistor radio broadcast searching for Edgar.
The sound of a record crackle that was used for one of the trasitions between scenes.
The sound of cars driving up and opening fire, instead of the traditional battle that happens in Act V, Scene 2.
Music Selections used in King Lear
If I Didn’t Care by the Ink Spots
Someone’s Rocking my Dreamboat by the Ink Spots
Why Was I Born by Ella Fitzgerald
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall by the Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
Fool That I Am by The Ravens
Daddy’s Little Girl by The Mills Brothers
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire by the Ink Spots (with the addition of a record needle being set)
Dream Sequence by Louie Belson
Can’t Nobody Love You by Solomon Burke