King Lear

In the tradition of our readings of Twelfth Night and The Merchant of Venice, a bunch of us sat down after dinner for our newest assignment, King Lear.  The length of the play and the fact that we don't have to have it read until Thursday accounted for the gradual dropping off of everyone.  By Act III we were down to three people.  By Act IV and V there were only two of us, exhausted from reading the lines, and sick of putting feeling into them, but we just really really wanted to get it done.  So, after 3 hours and 45 minutes and the deaths of most of the major characters in the tragedy, we finished!

I'm looking forward to seeing King Lear at the Globe Theatre next week.