Off we go! Claire Curtis-Ward, Levi Morger, Sam Gibbs and Ariana Karp delve into Act I of Shakespeare's nihilistic masterpiece! 

This week we discuss:

• The family dynamic of Gloucester, Edmund & Edgar
• Are the knights riotous? Whose report of them do we trust?
• Difference between Goneril and Regan?
• Kent and the 'perfect' disguise
• The tenuousness of identity 
• Dementia and Senility and their role from the beginning of the play
• The repetition of the word "nothing" within the 1st act! 
• The complicated switch of the child becoming the parent and the tensions within the father/daughter relationship

Laurence Olivier as Lear in the opening scene of the play