The weather plays a significant role in our world for crop production, survival of wildlife and tourism. Replicating weather on set can be a challenging task for the producer of a play.
In William Shakespeare’s play King Lear, Lear has stepped down from his throne and divided his kingdom between his two eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan. Now, not wanting to care for their elderly father, his eldest daughters have thrown him out of the castle into the wilderness on a particularly stormy night with only his two loyal followers.
While reading this extract, try to come up with ways that you would bring this piece to life on stage. King Lear
Enter Lear, Kent and the Fool KENT Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter. The tyranny of the open night’s too rough For nature to endure.
(Storm still) LEAR KENT LEAR
Let me alone. Good my Lord, enter here. Wilt break my heart?
KENT I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter. LEAR
Thou think’st ‘tis much that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin; so ‘tis to thee. But where the greater malady is fi xed The lesser is scarce felt. Thou’dst shun a bear; But if thy fl ight lay toward the roaring sea Thou’dst meet the bear i’the mouth. When the mind’s free The body’s delicate; this tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else
