To all my fellow Lear studiers in my class, if you’ve got a bit of time to spare amongst all your hard English revision I recommend watching this comedy film about an amateur dramatics club putting on King Lear with a faded Hollywood star. It really is amusing and I kept trying to work out which parts of which scene they were doing by the lines (just so I felt it almost counted as revision!!). It’s only up for a short while on iPlayer so do catch it while you can!:)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rly8q/a-bunch-of-amateurs
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This is a great little film – with Burt Reynolds in the lead – noted for usually light-hearted roles, does a couple of speeches brilliantly – surprisingly perfect casting!