British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database
King Lear (1992): Kaboodle
PRINCIPAL CAST: Geof Atwell (Gloucester); Lee Beagley (Lear); Nick Birkinshaw (Kent); Steven Book (Edmund); Andrea Earl (Regan); Russ Edwards (Edgar); Paula Simms (Fool); Rachel Smith (Cordelia); Esther Wilson (Goneril).
Kaboodle toured King Lear in the autumn of 1992 and spring of 1993 to multiple venues in the UK with the Unity Theatre, Liverpool (the programme from the venue is the document of record for this production), Warwick Arts Centre, Belfast Arts Theatre, Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury and Merlin Theatre in Frome among its venues.
King Lear won the Best Fringe Production of the Manchester Evening News Awards in 1993, for its run at The Green Room.
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