‘KING LEAR'

Evening Star, Issue 21706, 28 April 1934, Page 8

‘KING LEAR'

On Tuesday night next, the Dunedin Shakespeare Club will present a public reading of ‘ King Lear.’ It is thirty years since the club, now in its 57th season, gave a public performance of this famous tragedy. The theme, filial ingratitude, is one that is as old as the world itself, universal in its workings and effects. Mad King Lear, true-hearted Kent, devoted Cordelia, fiendish Goneril and Regan, arc notable figures in English dramatic literature. The play is considered by many competent judges to be Shakespeare’s greatest work, and it has been said that it is too great in conception to be presented adequately on any stage—hence the infrequency of actual performances. The local club, which happens incidentally to be the oldest in the British Empire, feels that'it would not be doing its duty to subscribers and the public generally if it did not endeavour to present 1 King Lear,’ and the following strong cast has been chosen:—Mrs F. J. Gjir, Miss Madge Yates, Miss N. Henaglmn, Miss M. O’Sullivan and Messrs: J. Fleming, S. H. Osborn, S. G. Lock, IL. Turnbull, W. B. Qncunoll, R. tH. Wilson. N. M'Kinlay, H. W. Hunter, F. J. Gair and D. E. Dali.

Assisting artists will be Miss Dorothy Ma.-kay ami -Mrs Alfred Walm-dey ;