Building on the excitement and success of the first workshop Randall and Annie will lead another installment of Discovering King Lear.
Attendance at the first workshop is not a pre-requisite for participation. We encourage the general public to witness and participate.
Link to YouTube stream of Session 1
Lovers of Shakespeare’s plays are invited for a gathering on September 29th called DISCOVERING KING LEAR. It is a four hour session led by Randall Duk Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso in which ACT II will be read, followed by a lively audience discussion of what happens in the play. We will introduce the FOLIO and different tools and techniques and tales that have provided our approach to bringing the play to life. This is a unique opportunity to work on, arguably, one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies as if it were being prepared to be performed on the stage.
On Broadway, Randall Duk Kim has performed in The King and I, Golden Child, and Flower Drum Song. In a career spanning nearly fifty years, he has appeared on stage with the New York Shakespeare Festival in The Jungle of Cities (the Public), The Tempest (Lincoln Center), Pericles and Cymbeline (the Delacorte); the American Place Theatre in The Chickencoop Chinaman, The Karl Marx Play, The Year of the Dragon and Nourish the Beast; the Jewish Repertory Theatre in A Majority of One; the Champlain Shakespeare Festival (Burlington, Vermont) in The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richard III; the American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco, California) in King Richard III, Street Scene, The Taming of the Shrew, The Three Penny Opera, Marco Millions and When We Are Married; the Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, Minnesota) in The Pretenders, Teibele and Her Demon, Hamlet and The Marriage; the Singapore Repertory Theatre in Golden Child and ART.
Director Anne Occhiogrosso received national attention for her body of work at American Players Theatre where she was co-artistic director. An acclaimed director, dramaturg, acting coach and actress, her focus has always been classical theatre with a special emphasis on the works of William Shakespeare. At the American Players Theatre, she directed 16 Shakespearean plays along with works of by Moliere, Ibsen, Plautus and Chekhov.
For more information on Randall and Ann, click here.