King Lear
The Fall and Rise of Baseball
Oct. 24 - Nov. 9, 2008
performing at
The Portland Center for the Performing Arts
Brunish Hall
1111 SW Broadway
Portland, OR
Join the Re-Theatre Instrument for their second exhilarating production, a sparkling new adaptation of one of history's greatest works of literature, King Lear, and its unlikely but prescient intersection with Major League Baseball.
Retiring commissioner Lear, vain and full of hubris, attempts to tackle a distressing lack of economic parity between the large market teams like the New York Regans and the Boston Gonerils, and the smaller teams such as the Pittsburgh Cordelias.
With club payroll inequity run amok and teams fielding vastly uneven talent pools, can our beloved national pastime survive? Are we headed for a two tier sport? Or worse?
Cast
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Ted Roisum - Lear, the Commissioner of Baseball |
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Pat Janowski - Owner of the Boston Gonerils |
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Danielle Vermette - Owner of the New York Regans |
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Sara Fay Goldman - Owner of the Pittsburgh Cordelias |
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Keith Cable - Albany, General Manager of the Gonerils |
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T. Austin Sabel - Cornwall, General Manager of the Regans |
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Jeff Gorham - Gloucester, Manager of the Regans |
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Paul Susi - Edgar, Bench Coach of the Regans |
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Jeffrey Gilpin - Edmund, Bullpen Coach of the Regans |
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Deirdre Atkinson - Kent, Lear's most trusted advisor |
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Joseph Sousa - A baseball fanatic |
Staff and Designers
Jason Zimbler, Director
Luke Norby, Assistant Director and Video Designer
Mark Loring, Scenic Designer
Kyoko Nagao, Costume Designer
Gayle Shanley, LIghting Designer
