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Portland Actors Ensemble presents A Fifth Twilight Tragedie King Lear by William Shakespeare photo by Annaliese Moyer, www.stagerightphoto.com Directed by Jeremy Lillie STAGE MANAGER - Vanessa Elsner ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - Asae E. Dean SET DESIGN & TECHNICAL DIRECTION - Christopher Rousseau COSTUME DESIGN - Stephen Rousseau FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY - Kendall Wells PRODUCERS - Nathan Markiewicz & Michael Streeter DRAMATIS PERSONAE LEAR, King of Britain Curt Hanson Suitors to Cordelia KING of FRANCE Jake Rossman DUKE of BURGUNDY Dan O'Malley Lear's Household GONERIL, his eldest daughter Racheal Joy Erickson REGAN, his next eldest daughter Margaret Darling CORDELIA, his youngest daughter Clara Weishahn his FOOL Clara-Liis Hillier KNIGHT COMMANDER of Lear's Guard Frank Woodman a KNIGHT, 2nd in command of Lear's Guard Jake Rossman other KNIGHTS and ATTENDANTS in Lear's train Jon Lakey, Margaret Darling Michael Godsey, Clara Weishahn Retainers to Lear and their households EARL of GLOUCESTER Craig R. Currier EDGAR, son to Gloucester Alec Wilson EDMUND, bastard son to Gloucester Ken Potts CURAN, major domo to Gloucester RaChelle Schmidt an OLD MAN, servant to Gloucester Frank Woodman a YOUNGER SERVANT to Gloucester Patrick J. Cox EARL of KENT Michael Streeter DUKE of CORNWALL, husband to Regan Michael Godsey a SERVANT to Cornwall Jon Lakey DUKE of ALBANY, husband to Goneril Patrick J. Cox OSWALD, steward to Goneril Dan O'Malley a HERALD Michael Godsey SOLDIERS, BANNERMEN, and a DRUMMER Dan O'Malley & Jon Lakey


King Lear is perhaps Shakespeare’s most uncompromising tragedy. Yet at its heart, it is about forgiving oneself, demonstrated by the character journeys of both Lear and Cordelia as well as Gloucester and Edgar. It is also one of the Bard's most insightful plays. Lear examines the human condition on every level of society, from the absolute monarch to the most outcast and wretched people of the social order. Authority, loyalty, obedience, service, servility, dignity, and pride are principal themes that are woven to support each character’s journey. Stark, soaring, and majestic, we have chosen to perform Shakespeare's great tragedy in locations that invoke those qualities: beneath the Willamette Valley's only suspension bridge, the St. Johns Bridge in Cathedral Park. Special to this year, the Maryhill Museum has invited Portland Actors Ensemble to perform for one night only, at the Stonehenge War Memorial in Maryhill, Washington on the evening of the Summer Solstice.
*All shows are FREE* Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings *June 11, 12, & 13, 7:30 pm -Cathedral Park Under the bridge at N. Edison St. and N. Philadelphia Ave June 18, 19, 7:30 pm -Cathedral Park June 20, 7:30 pm -Stonehenge War Memorial, 140 Stonehenge Dr. Maryhill, WA located about three miles east of the Maryhill Museum June 25, 26, 7:30 pm -Cathedral Park June 27, 6:00 pm -Autumn Ridge Park 17548 Northwest Fieldstone Drive, Beaverton near NW 185th Ave. and NW Walker Rd. July 2, 3, 7:30 pm -Cathedral Park (no show on the 4th) July 9, 10, & 11, 7:30 pm -Cathedral Park** *scheduled to be an ASL Sign Interpreted Performance

Portland Actors Ensemble PO Box 8671 Portland, OR. 97207 503-467-6573