Opening Night: 23 June 1998
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Król Lir
Original Title: King Lear
Translator: Zofia Siwicka
Director:
Maciej Prus

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 2 hours 55 min

King Lear

director: Maciej Prus
set design: Zofia de Inẽs
music: Stanisław Radwan

Cast:

King Lear Jan Englert
King of France Waldemar Błaszczyk (guest actor)
Duke of Burgundy Grzegorz Klein (guest actor)
Duke of Cornwall Artur Żmijewski / Maciej Kozłowski (from September 3, 1998)
Duke of Albany Maciej Wojdyła (TA; as a guest actor till August 31, 1998)
Earl of Kent Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Earl of Gloucester Michał Pawlicki
Edgar Mariusz Bonaszewski
Edmund Bartosz Opania (guest actor) / Artur Żmijewski (from September 3, 1998)
Oswald Andrzej Blumenfeld / Leszek Zduń (from October 8, 1999)
Fool Łukasz Lewandowski
Gentleman Arkadiusz Janiczek
Goneril Beata Ścibakówna
Regan Dorota Segda
Cordelia Joanna Kwiatkowska-Zduń
Servant of Earl of Gloucester Paweł Tołwiński (as a guest actor till August 31, 1998)
Servant of Duke of Cornwall Sławomir Śmiałek (guest actor)
Messenger Mikołaj Klimek (guest actor)
Courtier Radosław Elis (as a guest actor till August 31, 1998)

and guest actors:
Marek Bogucki, Marcin Brykczyński, Ireneusz Dydliński, Jacek Dzięgiel, Marcin Kocela, Michał Kowalski, Dariusz Pick, Tomasz Zięcik, Andrzej Byś (from January 7, 1999; understudy), Łukasz Korybalski (from April 17, 1999; understudy), Tomasz Traczyński (from September 3, 1998; understudy)

Production team:

  • lighting technicians: Jacek Kaczyński, Artur Mańkowski
  • sound technician: Marian Tarczyński
  • director's assistants: Mariusz Bieliński (TA), Włodzimierz Borysiak (TA)
  • set designer's assistant: Stanisław Kuczkowski

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