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Actors From The London Stage Perform ‘King Lear’ At Rice University

We learn about their production and about King Lear’s relevance in 2019 America.

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The Actors From The London Stage to perform King Lear at Rice University’s Hamman Hall. (L-R): Richard James-Neale, Tricia Kelly, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Ffion Jolly, and Fred Lancaster

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In 1975, actor Patrick Stewart founded a traveling theatre company called Actors From The London Stage, which visits universities around the world.

This year's troupe — member of which all hail from prestigious theater companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre — are coming to Houston to perform their production of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear at Rice University Jan. 31 — Feb. 2.

In the audio above, Craig Cohen chats with troupe members Fred Lancaster and Jonathan Dryden Taylor and with local Shakespeare expert Joe Campana about Lear and its relevance in 2019 America.