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Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 14 - Dramaturg Philippa Kelly - Pt. 2Dramaturg for King Lear Philippa Kelly talks with Executive Producer Michael Goodfriend in part two of their interview and dive into specific characters in King Lear. They also discuss the role women played around the time King Lear was written, and its impact on the play. Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was t...
2022-06-1035 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 13 - Dramaturge Philippa Kelly - Pt. 1The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC TING. Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast Series King Lear is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION.V...
2022-06-0335 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Aldo Billingslea Discusses His Role As "The Fool"The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC TING. Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast Series King Lear is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION.V...
2022-05-2749 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 11 - Director Eric Ting - Pt. 2Director Eric Ting talks with Senior Producer Miriam Laube about his path from puppetry to the collaborative art form of theater, and the enduring power of great plays.Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC...
2022-05-2034 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 10 - Director Eric Ting - Pt. 1Director Eric Ting talks with Senior Producer Miriam Laube about his path from puppetry to the collaborative art form of theater, and the enduring power of great plays.Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC...
2022-05-1035 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 9 - Actors Roundtable with Rebecca Clark Carey, Gina Daniels and Amy WaschkeNext Chapter Podcasts presents an actors roundtable featuring King Lear voice & text coach Rebecca Clark Carey sharing experiences with actors Gina Daniels and Amy Waschke from behind the scenes working with Shakespeare in the form of a podcast as well as discussions about their careers.Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On...
2022-05-0409 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 8 - Lindsay Jones on King Lear's Sound Design and Composition - Part 2King Lear Sound Designer Lindsay Jones returns to discuss jazz as a metaphor for the creative process of theater, advocacy for Sound Designers, appreciating collaboration and creating a humane work schedule.Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and...
2022-04-2608 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 7 - Lindsay Jones on Sound Design - Pt. 1Award-winning sound designer and industry leader Lindsay Jones recounts how he and his band hijacked a truck to make a flight to his wedding, and why it has everything to do with the art of good storytelling. Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today! The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English v...
2022-04-1907 min
Play On PodcastsFull Play - King LearWelcome to the full play of the Play On Podcasts' Series King Lear.The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC TING. The Play On Podcast Series King Lear is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit N C PODCASTS DOT COM for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE DOT ORG for more about Play On Shakespeare.New episodes g...
2022-04-153h 35
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - The Full PlayWelcome to the full play of the Play On Podcasts' Series King Lear.
The Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC TING.
The Play On Podcast Series King Lear is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit N C PODCASTS DOT COM for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE DOT ORG for more about Play On Shakespeare.
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2022-04-153h 33
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - We Who Are YoungThe epic series concludes with Edmund confronting his challenger in a public fight to the death. Edgar survives to tell of his saga as “Poor Tom” and of his journey with his blinded father. News arrives of Goneril and Regan’s death as Edmund uses his last breaths to try to save Lear and Cordelia from the executions he ordered. But it’s too late. King Lear arrives with his dead daughter in his arms and mourns her inconsolably until his heart stops beating. Edgar is left to pick up the pieces of Lear’s broken kingdom as bulldozers roar and t...
2022-04-0823 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - We Must Adapt To These Hard TimesKent reunites with Cordelia at the Highland Hospital in Oakland, where with a doctor they witness King Lear’s awakening and recognition of his youngest daughter. Meanwhile, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, Regan confesses to Edmund that she fears he is not loyal only to her, but also to her sister. Edmund tries to reassure her, but he is interrupted by Goneril and Albany, who arrive to negotiate on how to proceed with their battle plans. Once Goneril, Regan and Edmund are gone, Edgar slips in, disguised, and delivers a message to Albany to summon him upon th...
2022-04-0126 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Ruined Masterpiece Of NatureBathing seductively in her home, Regan uses all her powers of persuasion to delay Oswald’s delivery of a message from Goneril to Edmund (and to warn Goneril to back off of Edmund, whose heart she thinks she’s won), telling Oswald to kill Gloucester at once if he ever sees him. Meanwhile, Gloucester asks Poor Tom (Edgar) to lead him to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, where he intends to jump to his death. Edgar tricks his father into thinking he’s at the railing of the bridge, and Gloucester, falling forward, faints on level ground. As his...
2022-03-2527 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - It Must Be The StarsCornwall is gravely injured by a servant trying to defend Gloucester, who has been captured and tortured for aiding King Lear. Gloucester is blinded and cast out of his own home into Golden Gate Park, where he encounters “Poor Tom” (Edgar), who comes to his aid without revealing his true identity as Gloucester’s son. The next morning, Goneril receives Edmund in her home and allies herself with him before a bitter feud with her now estranged husband, Albany. They are interrupted by news of Cornwall’s death and Gloucester’s blinding, which drives a wedge even further between Goneril an...
2022-03-1827 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Is Man No More Than This?Lear rails at the raging storm on the cliffs of the Marin Headlands as The Fool and Kent (disguised as Caius) beg him to seek shelter in a nearby shack, where they discover Edgar disguised as “Poor Tom”. Meanwhile, Gloucester confides in Edmund his misgivings about the King’s treatment, sharing intelligence he’s gathered concerning plots to avenge Lear. Edmund gives this news to Cornwall, who rewards him by making him Earl and vows to take revenge on Edmund’s father. Later, Gloucester finds Lear and his companions in the shack and persuades them to take shelter in his basemen...
2022-03-1126 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Storm StillEdgar goes into hiding as “Poor Tom”, a beggar in Golden Gate Park. Lear arrives at Gloucester’s mansion to find his servant Caius (Kent) locked in restraints. Furious, he lashes out at Cornwall, who defends his actions, and Regan, who tells him to return to Goneril and ask her forgiveness. As Lear fumes at her, Goneril arrives in the courtyard to the open embrace of her sister. Together, they whittle away at Lear’s entourage as a storm approaches, eventually telling him to dismiss all his knights. Lear rails at them and vows revenge before blindly setting out into the...
2022-03-0426 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 6 - Actor Daniel Jose MolinaSelf described Shakespeare nerd, Daniel Jose Molina, talks about playing some of the iconic roles in Shakespeare's cannon including Henry V, and Romeo, along with a side-by-side reading of Shakespeare and Marcus Gardley's translation of the words of Edgar in King Lear.Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast series KING...
2022-03-0255 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Here He Stood In DarknessSynopsis.The King curses Goneril for her inhospitable treatment and sends Caius (Kent) to find Regan. Back in his car with the Fool, Lear worries about his sanity and the Fool does his best to cheer him up. Later, outside Gloucester’s mansion, Edmund gets word from Curan that Cornwall and Regan will soon arrive at his father’s house, and that there is likely going to be a war between Cornwall and Albany over their territory. Edmund makes the most of the opportunity by convincing Edgar to flee from the house for his own safety, then pret...
2022-02-2528 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 5 - Actor Tramell TillmanThe Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC TING. Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast Series King Lear is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit N C...
2022-02-231h 03
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Stand Up For BastardsSynopsis.In the garden outside Gloucester’s Fillmore District mansion, a furious Edmund conspires to take from his brother what he feels he deserves from his father. Having set the trap, he drives to a nightclub where he sets up his brother Edgar for a fall from grace. Elsewhere, on an ocean beach outside of Goneril’s mansion in outer-Richmond, San Francisco, Goneril instructs her servant, Oswald, to treat her father with disdain when he arrives, in the hope that it will push him to go to Regan’s house instead. Inside Goneril’s house, the exiled Kent has...
2022-02-1835 min
Play On PodcastsBonus Content Episode 4 - Actor Keith DavidThe Play On Podcast series KING LEAR, was translated into modern English verse by MARCUS GARDLEY and directed by ERIC TING. Listen to the full episode on Play On Premium for an ad-free audio experience featuring full plays and bonus content interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. Go to NCPODCASTS.COM and sign up today!The Play On Podcast Series King Lear is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit N C...
2022-02-1655 min
Play On PodcastsKing Lear - Heave My Heart Into My MouthSynopsis.As a large crowd of invited guests gather in the ballroom of King Lear’s home in San Francisco’s Fillmore District to hear his much-anticipated announcement regarding his plans for the future of his kingdom, the Earl of Gloucester gossips with Lear’s trusted advisor, Kent, about the King’s shaky health, which is evident in his plans to split the kingdom among his daughters and their husbands, including his unwed daughter, Cordelia, who will choose to marry either the Duke of Burgundy or the King of France this very evening. Gloucester introduces Kent to his ille...
2022-02-1129 min
The How This Works showAmy Kim WaschkeWe recorded this episode when the west coast fires were raging all up and down California, Oregon, and Washington state in Sep 2020. We talked about Amy's journey to becoming a stage actor as well as what her world looks like today as a company member for Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) during COVID-19.
One thing we talked about during this episode is how much the arts bring into the U.S. economy every year — on average, $877B is added to the economy, it employs 5.1M people, and is 4.5% of the GDP.
Stay tuned until the end of...
2020-12-0847 min
Shakespeare's ShadowsHermione - Episode 4
featuring interviews with actor Amy Kim Waschkeand Loyola Marymount University professor Theresia de VroomHermione is a rarity among Shakespeare’s characters: She’s mother of young children. This queen at the center of The Winter’s Tale gets put through the wringer before she can be reunited with her daughter. In this episode, LMU professor Theresia de Vroom and Amy Kim Waschke — who played Hermione at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival last year — discuss how to approach the moment that calls Hermione’s faithfulness into question, what’s remarkable about her trial scene, and varying interpretations...
2017-05-0433 minShakespeare's ShadowsHermione - Episode 4Hermione is a rarity among Shakespeare’s characters: She’s mother of young children. This queen at the center of “The Winter’s Tale” gets put through the wringer before she can be reunited with her daughter. In this episode, LMU professor Theresia de Vroom and Amy Kim Waschke — who played Hermione at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival last year — discuss how to approach the moment that calls Hermione’s faithfulness into question, what’s remarkable about her trial scene, and varying interpretations of that spectacle of a statue.
2017-05-0433 min