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Contents

OntheBoards 12 AselectionofnotableCST events,playsandplayers

PointofView 14 DirectorBarbaraGainestakes anotherlookintoking lear

Cast 23 Playgoer’sGuide 24 Profiles 26 AScholar’sPerspective 36 StuartShermanandthe painoflearninginking lear

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a Twitter post by national Public radio personality ira glass sparked a national

dialog on the cultural relevance of Shakespeare in modern america. His comment

“Shakespeare: not good. no stakes. not relatable” is the antithesis of what

audiences discover through the bold, visceral productions at Chicago Shakespeare.

reflective of the ed Paschke painting that hangs in our lobby, we believe that

Shakespeare has many faces. You have only to connect into the humanity inherent

in his work and ride the wave of emotion and complexity of language to discover

that his stories mirror our own paths—amplifying our greatest accomplishments

and laying bare our most tragic follies.

Today, you will see a relevant, painfully relatable KingLear. Featuring the

singular talent of Chicago actor larry Yando in the title role, the production

cuts to the bone of the emotional volatility of an aging man while mining the

family dysfunction that so often plagues the process of death and dying. This

contemporary exploration of love and loss is a harrowing tale, and contains great

lessons for us all. it is a play that demands retelling—and this is, in fact, the third

production of Lear in CST’s history.

You are at a home for Shakespeare that, similar to the city we call home, brings an

entrepreneurial spirit and inventiveness to our explorations of his work. This fall

alone, CST will produce a technology-fueled, pedestrian journey through the streets

of Chicago, inspired by Shakespeare’sMeasureforMeasure; we will tour the “ad-rap-

tation” Othello:TheRemix to gdansk, Poland; and we will be creating an abridged

production of AMidsummerNight’sDream with an ensemble of students and

teachers representing the diversity and potential inherent in our city and its schools.

at Chicago Shakespeare, Shakespeare is “good”; Shakespeare does have “stakes”;

and Shakespeare is “relatable.” Thank you for journeying through his canon at our

side. it’s a wild ride—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. n

dear friends,

CHiCago SHakeSPeare THeaTer

Welcome

BarbaraGaines artistic Director

CrissHenderson executive Director

SheliZ.Rosenberg Chair, Board of Directors

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Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) believes that Shakespeare speaks to

everyone. a global theatrical force, CST is known for vibrant productions that

reflect Shakespeare’s genius for storytelling, language, and empathy for the

human condition. The Theater has evolved into a dynamic company, producing

award-winning plays at its home on navy Pier, throughout Chicago’s schools

and neighborhoods, and on stages around the world. CST serves as a partner in

literacy to Chicago Public Schools, working alongside english teachers to help

struggling readers connect with Shakespeare in the classroom, and bringing

his text to life on stage for 40,000 students every year. and each summer,

25,000 families and audience members of all ages welcome CST's free Chicago

Shakespeare in the Parks into their neighborhoods across the far north, west

and south sides. reflecting the global city we call home, CST is the leading

producer of international work in Chicago and has toured its plays abroad to

africa, asia, australia and europe.

The Theater’s tradition of excellence and civic leadership has been honored

with numerous national and international awards, including the regional

Theatre Tony award, three laurence olivier awards, and seventy-seven Joseph

Jefferson awards. CST was the 2012 recipient of the Folger Shakespeare

library’s national Shakespeare Steward award for its innovative teaching

of Shakespeare in american classrooms. among its many international

engagements, CST participated in the royal Shakespeare Company’s 2006

Complete Works Festival and was selected to represent north america at the

globe to globe festival as part of london’s 2012 Cultural olympiad. n

BoarD oF DireCTorS

About CST


Sheli Z. rosenberg* Chair

eric Q. Strickland* Treasurer

Steven J. Solomon* DeputyChair

Frank D. Ballantine Brit J. Bartter* Thomas l. Brown allan e. Bulley iii Patrick r. Daley Brian W. Duwe Philip l. engel Jeanne B. ettelson Harve a. Ferrill Sonja H. Fischer richard J. Franke Barbara gaines* C. gary gerst* M. Hill Hammock* Patricia Harris

kathryn J. Hayley Criss Henderson* William l. Hood, Jr. Stewart S. Hudnut William r. Jentes* Jack l. karp John P. keller richard a. kent Barbara Malott kizziah edward a. langan Chase Collins levey anna livingston renetta e. McCann raymond F. McCaskey* robert g. Mclennan Jess e. Merten Dennis olis Mark S. ouweleen* Carleton D. Pearl Judith Pierpont Paulita a. Pike Stephanie Pope

richard W. Porter John rau nazneen razi glenn r. richter* John W. rowe* robert ryan Carole B. Segal kathleen kelly Spear Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. eileen Sweeney Sheila g. Talton Marilynn J. Thoma* gayle r. Tilles William J. Tomazin Donna Van eekeren* Priscilla a. (Pam) Walter* ava D. Youngblood

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On the Boards

photo credits: Barbara gaines, Paul gordon, Brad Haak and rick Boynton atSenseandSensibility workshop; audience members of Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks AMidsummerNight’sDream; company of TheMagicFlute; Marilyn Halperin, Paul Prescott, Michelle Boone, Criss Henderson and Paul edmondson at “Shakespeare on the road” luncheon; photos by liz lauren, Chuck osgood, Daniel ribar and courtesy of isango ensemble.

behind the scenes

This past summer, the third annual

tour of Chicago Shakespeare in the

Parks drew record-breaking crowds at

twenty-six performances across the

city, from englewood to garfield Park,

South Shore and little Village. over

the course of four weeks, more than

25,000 Chicagoans attended free

performances ofAMidsummerNight’s

Dream in eighteen parks located in

communities that have historically

found access to the cultural institutions

of our city prohibitive. Mayor rahm

emanuel champions this community

arts engagement initiative as the

catalyst for and centerpiece of the city’s

night out in the Parks program. Free for

all—Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks is

made possible by a unique partnership

between the Theater, the Chicago Park

District and The Boeing Company.

recently featured in Crain’sChicago

Business, CST’s World’s Stage Series

“has broadened Chicagoans’ notions

of what theater can be by showing

them how innovative artists in other

parts of the world do it.” Continuing

this tradition, CST is proud to kick off

its fifteenth season of international

programming in September, when South

africa’s isango ensemble transforms

navy Pier’s Skyline Stage with their

stunning adaptation ofTheMagicFlute.

an olivier award-winning production

that took london’s West end by storm,

this piece effortlessly relocates Mozart's

magical, mysterious kingdom to a

contemporary township, encompassing

various african languages. With a score

faithfully transposed for an orchestra of

marimbas, drums and percussion, thirty

actors and musicians fill the stage with

sheer exuberance, celebrating the spirit

of contemporary africa.

The development of the world premiere

musical SenseandSensibility came one

step closer to production in an intensive

summer workshop. a group of music

theater artists from across the country

joined the new musical’s director, artistic

Director Barbara gaines, Tony-nominated

composer/lyricist Paul gordon and CST

Creative Producer rick Boynton, guiding

the development of CST’s new work. With

Brad Haak at the piano they continued

to explore and shape this exciting

new work. Speaking on his experience

working with them, Mr. gordon said, “it’s

wonderful to have both Barbara and rick

guiding me. it’s a tremendous privilege

and it enhances the work.” Senseand

Sensibility, debuting at CST in april,

is a greatly anticipated reimagining of

Jane austen’s classic tale of two sisters

navigating through society following their

loss of fortune to find love.

in august, CST welcomed scholars

from the Uk’s Shakespeare Birthplace

Trust and University of Warwick on

their “Shakespeare on the road”

initiative, documenting Shakespeare in

north america today on the occasion

of Shakespeare’s Quadricentennial

by visiting fourteen Shakespeare

companies over sixty days. Here,

the team observedKingLear in

rehearsal with artistic Director Barbara

gaines, attended a performance of A

MidsummerNight’sDream alongside

2,000 audience members at Welles

Park in lincoln Square, and conducted

interviews with CST artists and

leadership. in recognition of the unique

relationship between CST and Stratford-

upon-avon, a plaque carved from a

cedar in Shakespeare’s own garden was

presented to executive Director Criss

Henderson and Chicago’s Commissioner

of the Department of Cultural affairs

and Special events Michelle Boone at a

private luncheon. n

IN THE COMMUNITY

AROUND THE WORLDON STAGE



Wheredoyougo/Whenitstartstorain/Whatdoyoudo/Whenthenighttime

comes/Wheredoyougo/Whenyourheart’sinpain/Thesearethethings/That

Iwanttoknow…

—Sung by Frank Sinatra / lyrics by arnold Sundgaard

in one of lear’s first scenes he demands,

Someone tell me who i am. i’ve always played

those lines rhetorically: Will someone tell me who

i am, dammit. i’m the king. Bow down to me. But

what if his question isreal and, from the very

beginning of the story, he is struggling with his

dementia? That’s when it exploded in my brain,

and now i know that i’m directingLear again—with Sinatra. i emailed Bill Zehme,

asking if he would introduce me via email to someone at the Sinatra estate. He

writes a beautiful letter to them, and within days he hears back: Tell Barbara not

to worry. She should do it.

AndhowwillyouincorporateSinatra’smusicintothisproduction?

obviously this is a contemporary version, a modern-dress production with several

songs interlaced because this king lear is in love with Sinatra.

DoesthemusicserveasasparktoLear’smemory?

a spark to memory, or a spark to forgetting. or a spark of insight or a spark of

sheer depression and guilt. or a spark of love. it is definitely ignition.

CanyoutalkmoreaboutyourdecisiontomakethisacontemporaryLear?

Quite honestly, they could be wearing costumes from 700 a.D. or 700 B.C.

everything would be the same because human beings haven’t changed a whole

hell of a lot. as theater artists, we search or we wait for ideas that will connect

us with the themes of a play. i do hope that most people will connect with this

production because so many of us have witnessed the tragedy of a mind giving

way to dementia.

Isthatwhatforyouresidesattheheartofthisplay?

This is a play at its core about how blind we all can be; the onset of dementia is one

reason, one cause among many. inKingLear, we witness the horror of gloucester’s

savage blinding, but also the emotional blindness of characters who not only

don’t know themselves, but do not see the people right before their eyes. insight,

PoinT oF VieW

Director of KingLearBarbara gaines

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YouhavedirectedKing Lear twicebefore—firstin1993,

andagainin2001attheTheater’snewhomeonNavyPier.

Yes, and i remember on opening night back in 2001

thinking, i’ve missed something. one idea kept gnawing

at me: that no one in his right mind would give everything

away and assume that you’d be treated exactly as you

were when you were rich and powerful.

Then, in 2005 my mother had a massive heart attack,

and moved here to live with me. Most of us know what

the experience is of seeing someone you love being

diminished by age. it’s the natural order of things, and it

hurts like hell. and though my mother didn’t suffer from

dementia, i watched someone, so witty and brilliant, be

so changed by old age. i remember coming home from

the theater, putting my key in the door and simply being

unable to turn it in the lock, just trying to calm myself.

about a year before she died, Mom was watching TV in

one room and i was in another when i hear a song on

the radio i’d never heard before. it’s Sinatra, and all i can

think about is lear, out on that heath. it haunted me.

Fast-forward to 2012 when dear friends, Bernie and Jane

Sahlins, invited me out to dinner, and along that night was

Bill Zehme, who wrote the brilliant biography on Sinatra,

TheWayYouWearYourHat. Did he know this song? He

couldn’t recall the name, but he was the first person i’d

asked in four years who knew it. The next morning, there

it was in my email, from the album NoOneCares, called

“Where Do You go.”

A s she began the rehearsal process, artistic director Barbara gaines

shared her thoughts with CsT’s staff about her production of King Lear. Most of us know what the

experience is of seeing someone you love being

diminished by age.

A Conversation with the Director

16 Fall 2014 | King Lear

so different from sight, is a wisdom that comes from a profound sense of empathy.

This is a tyrant, a man who has paid no attention to anybody in his country—not

to his noblemen, to his military advisors, nor to his family—and certainly not to the

countless homeless people who also populate

his kingdom. Then, he becomes homeless, and

he sees them, truly sees them, for the first time.

and he acknowledges that ‘i have ta'en too

little care of this.’ To me, that revelation makes

this no longer a tragedy. lear sees: My god,

look what i could have done when i had the

power. That’s a transcendent moment.

Didyoubeginyourexplorationoftheplaythistimewiththesameplayscript

thatyouusedinyourlastproductionfrom2001?

no, i never go back because i’m different now, and thus Shakespeare’s text will be

brand new to me. Both life and i have changed. and as i return to Shakespeare, there

will be different words and phrases that will be completely new to me this time, and i

want them there as i devise the script for a new production.

AndwhydidLarryYandoimmediatelybecomesocentraltoyourvisionforthis

production?

Because he’s one of the greatest actors that i’ve ever worked with. larry has done

so much extraordinary work with us and throughout this city, and he has earned

this opportunity to do lear. His ability to play darkness and light, his immediacy as

an actor, and his facility with language, are unparalleled. and paired with robby

(ross lehman) as the Fool, all that i wanted to communicate about this story fell

into place. robby was in our very first production of Lear in 1993, and until robby’s

audition back then, i didn’t understand the Fool. and so, though he had to leave that

production early for a Broadway role, i cast him. But last fall i told him, You owe me

a run. The wonderful thing about casting robby with larry is that the two are very,

very good friends. They take care of each other, and that’s the relationship that we’re

looking for between the Fool and lear. and with kevin (gudahl) as kent back in the

room as well, we have three great minds and artists, sharing years of experience

working together with Shakespeare, sharing knowledge, friendship—and love. n

‘i have ta’en too little care of this.’ To me, that

revelation makes this no longer a tragedy. lear sees.

Previous page: Barbara gaines with larry Yando in rehearsal for KingLear, photo by liz lauren. This page: Costume and scenic renderings by Mark Bailey, 2014.

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SENSE AND SENSIbILITY

artistic Director Barbara gaines stages a world premiere musical

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Castking lear LARRYYANDO*

old Man DAVIDLIVELY*

Duke of kent kEVINGuDAHL*

earl of gloucester MICHAELAARONLINDNER*

edmund JESSELukEN*

goneril BIANCALaVERNEJONES*

Cordelia NEHASSAIudeGANNES*

regan JESSIEEDATINO*

Duke of albany NATHANM.HOSNER*

Duke of Burgundy JOHNBYRNES

king of France CHRISTOPHERCHMELIk

edgar STEVEHAGGARD*

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Fool ROSSLEHMAN*

Duke of Cornwall LANCEBAkER*

Soldiers JOHNBYRNES,CHRISTOPHERCHMELIk,EVANMICHALIC,ALExMOERER†,RICHARDPIZARRO†, wESLEYSCOTT

ensemble EVEBOwMAN†,MADDIEBuRkE†,JOHNBYRNES,ANGELACARAVAGLIA†,CHRISTOPHERCHMELIk,ETHANEICHENBAuM†,HALEIGHHuTCHINSON†,EVANMICHALIC,ALExMOERER†,SEANMICHAELMOHLER†,MEGHANO’NEILL†,RICHARDPIZARRO†,wESLEYSCOTT,BECCASHEEHAN†,ALISONSMITH†,ELENATuBRIDY†,ABRAMVENCES†,MARkYACuLLO†,ILSEYAfTEZACHARIAS†

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Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: emily Berman for Cordelia; Sara Bues for Goneril,Regan; John Byrnes for DukeofCornwall, Oswald; Christopher Chmelik for Edgar; Sean gallagher for Soldier/Ensemble; Terry Hamilton for EarlofGloucester, DukeofAlbany,OldMan; Timothy edward kane* for DukeofKent, Fool; David lively* for KingLear; Wesley Scott for KingofFrance,DukeofBurgundy; Michael Silberblatt forEdmund.

*denotes member of actors’ equity association.

†Chicago Shakespeare Theater gratefully acknowledges Carin Silkaitis, Sean kelley, and Yasen Peyankov along with the faculty and students of north Central College, roosevelt University, and University of Chicago for their participation in this production’s intern program.

if we can help accommodate you during your visit, please speak with our House Manager. Please note that haze, fog and flashing lights may be used during this performance. also, actors will make entrances and exits throughout the theater. For your safety, we ask that you keep aisles and doorways clear. We request that you refrain from taking any photography and other video or audio recordings of the production.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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PlaYgoer'S gUiDe

The sTOryThe aging king of england chooses to abdicate his power and divide the

kingdom between his three daughters—their shares to be determined by the

depth of devotion each professes. lear’s elder daughters, goneril and regan,

lavish their father with empty words; his youngest, Cordelia, remains silent.

enraged, lear disinherits Cordelia, splitting the kingdom between her sisters—

then banishing his loyal advisor, the earl of kent, when he speaks out against a

king’s impulsivity. Cordelia, without title, land or family, is embraced by the king

of France as his wife, and together they leave her country behind.

lear’s counselor gloucester cannot see into the hearts of his children any

more than can his king. Deceived by edmund, his illegitimate younger son, into

believing that his elder son now plots his murder, gloucester disowns the elder

edgar. Usurped by his brother, edgar takes refuge in the countryside, disguised

as a homeless madman called “Poor Tom.”

goneril and regan prove unworthy stewards of their father and kingdom, and

lear, with his Fool and entourage of knights, makes an unwelcome guest in

their homes. Dispossessed and fearing insanity, lear rages out into the night.

His Fool and kent, disguised as “Caius,” follow lear. Vying both for power and

for edmund, the sisters soon turn upon each other. Betrayed by his son and

mutilated at the hands of regan and her husband Cornwall, gloucester seeks

out death, asking for help on the heath from a madman named Poor Tom.

France declares war upon a divided england, and Cordelia returns with troops

to restore lear’s throne. reunited, father and daughter are thrown into prison,

and there sentenced to death by edmund. an unknown knight appears to

challenge edmund in combat, and the future of family, king and kingdom hang

in the balance.

OriginsBelieved to have its roots in Celtic legend, the story of a king named lear is

considered a legacy of ancient Britain’s mythology. in the British imagination,

the story’s importance does not rest with provable facts: it is significant

because it helps establish a national identity extending beyond recorded

history. The earliest known written record of a king lear appears in geoffrey

of Monmouth’s medieval text HistoriaregiumBritanniae (ca.1136), a narrative

spanning 2,000 years of British kings. another likely historical source was

Holinshed’s two-volume work, ChroniclesofEngland,Scotland,andIreland

(published 1577–1587). Shakespeare’s most immediate theatrical influence

was likely an anonymously written play, entitled TheTrueChronicleHistory

ofKingLeir, written ca. 1594.

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Folk narrative, too, contributes to Shakespeare’s blended storytelling. Motifs

of fathers and ungrateful daughters, and cruel sisters covetous of younger

sisters are found in the ancient folk-stories of europe and asia, like those of

the goosegirl-Princess and Cinderella. The subplot of edmund, edgar and

gloucester is thought to have been inspired by another poetic source—Sidney’s

poem, Arcadia (1590), in which an outcast son and his blinded father meet while

seeking shelter from a violent storm.

The Play’s TWO TexTsShakespeare’s KingLear exists in two distinct printings—the First Quarto and

the First Folio, published in 1608 and 1623, respectively. Which version best

manifests “authorial final intent”? editors and directors are tasked with choosing

how each will inform their work. The differences are attributed to the suggestion

that the earlier and later editions were based upon two different “copy-texts”:

the First Quarto on Shakespeare’s “foul papers” (handwritten manuscripts),

and the First Folio upon the king’s Men’s performance prompt-book (a working

copy of the play, which included the actors’ entrances and exits, script cuts,

and music cues.) one theory asserts that the First Quarto was illegally printed

from a stolen copy of the playwright’s foul papers; another, that one or more

of Shakespeare’s actors constructed the text from memory. The First Quarto

contains approximately 300 lines not present in the First Folio, but lacks another

100 lines. editors—and directors—have most commonly opted to conflate the

two texts, incorporating from each features that support their creative vision or

academic theoretical commitments. in this production, director Barbara gaines

created a playscript based on the 1623 First Folio, with the addition of a few

sections from the First Quarto.

king lear in early PerfOrManCeThe play’s first recorded performance was in 1606 at the court of king James i,

and starred the famous actor richard Burbage. The scarcity of contemporary

commentary on early productions has led scholars to believe that the play was

not popular in Shakespeare’s time. Following the interregnum and the closing of

the english theaters, only two performances were recorded before Shakespeare’s

play was replaced in 1681 by nahum Tate’s adaptation—which held the stage in

lieu of Shakespeare’s version for the next 150 years. Tate’s adaptation famously

excised gloucester’s blinding and the character of the Fool, then forged a

romance between Cordelia and edgar, who lived happily ever after. n


ProfileslanCe Baker (DukeofCornwall) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he appeared in HenryVIII and Amadeus. other Chicago credits include: TheAgonyandtheEcstasyofSteve

Jobs(16th Street Theatre); Doubt, Speed-the-Plow (american Theater Company); TenChimneys, Mauritius (northlight Theatre); InvisibleMan, Travesties, TheImportanceofBeingEarnest, Who’sAfraidofVirginiaWoolf (Court Theatre); BeckyShaw, HungerandThirst, TheGreyZone(a red orchid Theatre); Spin, ThomPain[basedonnothing] (Jeff award-Solo Performance), SantalandDiaries (Theater Wit); ASteadyRain (royal george Theatre); ISailedwithMagellan, ...AYoungLadyfromRwanda (Victory gardens Theater); Dollhouse, LobbyHero (goodman Theatre); NoPlaceLikeHome (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Nocturne (naked eye Theatre); UpAgainstIt (lookingglass Theatre Company); ThisIsOurYouth (after Dark award-Best actor), Dealer’sChoice and Betty’sSummerVacation (roadworks). regional credits include: TheFoxontheFairway, Sleuth (Theatre at the Center); TheRealFunnyGirl (asolo repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre); AroundtheWorldin80Days(kansas City repertory Theatre); and Ecstasy (odyssey Theatre).

JOhn Byrnes (DukeofBurgundy/Ensemble)returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: HenryV, TheMerryWivesofWindsor,HenryVIIIand Timon

ofAthens. recent Chicago credits include:Strangers, Babies (Steep Theatre Company);Compulsion(next Theatre Company); RichardIII(Wayward Productions); SweetBirdofYouth (goodman Theatre); AssistedLiving(Profiles Theater);Season'sGreetings(northlight Theatre); WaitingforLefty(american Blues Theater);ThievesLikeUs(House Theatre of Chicago); TheHairyApeandOurTown(The Hypocrites). regional credits include productions with: Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Huntington Theatre, new repertory Theater,

Boston Playwrights' Theatre and the Vineyard Playhouse. on-camera credits include: TheOnionNewsNetwork, Scent,'TwastheNight,TheGravityWelland numerous television commercials. He received his BFa from Boston University.

ChrisTOPher ChMelik (KingofFrance/Ensemble)returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include TheMerryWivesofWindsor and ShortShakespeare!The

ComedyofErrors. other Chicago credits include: Motortown, TheHollowLands(Steep Theatre Company);Reverb (redtwist Theatre); Coriolanus(The Hypocrites); LettersHome, OntheShoreoftheWideWorld,TheHostage(griffin Theatre); TheSea (Theatre Mir); WutheringHeights(lifeline Theatre); LoveTapesandTheEarl(The inconvenience).Television credits include Sirens(FX) andDoubleCross(iD). Mr. Chmelik received his BFa in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

Jessiee daTinO (Regan) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. off Broadway credits include TheLateChristopherBean (The actors Company Theatre) andSIN (Baruch

Performing arts Center). regional credits include: TAPE(Duel Theatre Company); HayFever, TheDiningRoom,LendMeaTenor (Penn State Centre Stage); RomeoandJuliet (Heart of america Shakespeare Festival); MoonOverBuffalo (Cape Playhouse); Talley’sFolly,TalleyandSon (kansas City actors Theatre); Don’tDressforDinner (arts Center of Costal Carolina); and AChristmasCarol (kansas City repertory Theatre). Ms. Datino received her MFa from Pennsylvania State University.

nehassaiU degannes (Cordelia) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. off off Broadway credits include Celiaand ThreeGiftsforLennyBruce (Target

Margin Theatre). regional credits include: Doubt (oldcastle Theatre); Marisol,TheTallestBuildingintheWorld (luna Stage); GoodPeople(Hampton Theatre Company); Equus (guild Hall); DoorofNoReturn (her original solo-show), TopGirls(gaMM Theatre); Proof, TheSkinofOurTeeth, TheCiderHouseRules (Trinity rep); and Coriolanus (Shakespeare & Co.). Canadian credits include:RomeoandJuliet, TheThreeMusketeers andTheMerchantofVenice (Stratford Festival). Ms. degannes received her MFa from Brown University and trained at Trinity rep Conservatory.

fred geyer (Oswald/Ensemble) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he appeared in ShortShakespeare! AMidsummerNight’sDream and was an

understudy in HenryV. other Chicago credits include: ThePitchforkDisney (Jeff award nomination–actor in a Principal role, interrobang Theatre Project); NorthangerAbbey (remy Bumppo Theatre Company); TheMerryWivesofWindsor, TwelfthNight (First Folio Theatre); and TheMistakesMadelineMade (liveWire Chicago). Mr. geyer is also a co-founder of Buzz22 Chicago, where he most recently appeared in the hit production SheKillsMonsters, produced at the 2013 Steppenwolf garage rep. regional credits include work with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and riverside Theatre, iowa. Mr. geyer received his Ba in theatre at northwestern University.

keVin gUdahl (DukeofKent/VerseCoach)returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: TheMerryWivesofWindsor, HenryVIII, TheSchoolforLies, the title

roles in Macbeth, AntonyandCleopatra and TroilusandCressida; William Shakespeare in ElizabethRex, Brutus in JuliusCaesar, Fredrik inALittleNightMusic, Hal inHenryIVParts1and2, and kayama in PacificOvertures. recent credits include Proof (Court Theatre) andAKissforTwo(Black Hills Playhouse). other Chicago credits include work with:

goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Marriott Theatre, northlight Theatre, remy Bumppo Theatre, Drury lane Theatre oakbrook and Victory gardens Theater. international credits include: five seasons with Stratford Festival (Canada); The Canadian Stage (Toronto); Donmar Warehouse (london); and royal Shakespeare Company (CST tour). Television credits include: Crisis(nBC); Boss(Starz);TheChicagoCode(FoX); and EarlyEdition(CBS). Film credits include: WhileYouWereSleeping,HomeAloneIIIand ThePokerHouse. Mr. gudahl is a multiple Jeff award recipient.

sTeVe haggard (Edgar) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he appeared as Silvius in AsYouLikeIt and Benvolio in RomeoandJuliet. other Chicago credits include:

Tribes (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); TheAliens (a red orchid Theatre); Wasteland (Timeline Theatre Company); Season’sGreetings, SheStoopstoConquer (northlight Theatre); OldGlory and TheSubjectWasRoses (Writers Theatre). regional credits include productions with: american Players Theatre, Milwaukee repertory Theater and indiana repertory Theatre. Mr. Haggard is an ensemble member with a red orchid Theatre and a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University.

naThan M. hOsner (DukeofAlbany) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks AMidsummerNight’sDream, HenryVIII, The

MadnessofGeorgeIIIand AsYouLikeIt. other Chicago credits include: Hesperia (Writers Theatre); AChristmasCarol (goodman Theatre); Henry Higgins in MyFairLady (Paramount Theatre); and the title role in Macbeth (First Folio Theatre). other credits include PeterandtheStarcatcher (first national tour) and productions with: american Players Theatre, The new Theatre, alabama Shakespeare Festival, arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, BoarsHead Theater, illinois Shakespeare Festival, Door Shakespeare and

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the Madison repertory new Play Festival. Mr. Hosner is a graduate of the royal academy of Dramatic art, london.

BianCa laVerne JOnes (Goneril) makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater debut. off Broadway credits include: RubyPlaceNestontheGround(Signature Theatre Company);

McReele (roundabout Theatre Company); Macbeth (The Classical Theatre of Harlem); TrojanWomen(aUDelCo nomination, The Classical Theatre of Harlem) andVirginoftheVieuxCarre(Primary Stages). regional credits include: TheMountaintop(City Theatre Company); IcedOutShackledandChained (aUDelCo nomination, national Black Theatre); MarcusortheSecretofSweet (Studio Theatre); Jacob'sHouse (access Theatre); Iken'sPerversion (loft 21/21); ACivilWarChristmas(long Wharf Theatre); Macbeth (lillian Theater);ThreepennyOpera (Williamstown Theatre Festival);BreathBoom, Madea, Macbethand Cinderella (Yale repertory Theatre);Blues, Runaways (national Black Theatre Festival); Relativity (original cast), Othello, KingHeadleyIIand RadioGolf (The Black rep). Television credits include: BURNED (BeT, Centric); NYC22 (CBS) and MeninLove (aBC). Web Series credits include: HardTimes (issa rae entertainment); ShittyFabLife and12StepstoRecovery. Ms. Jones received her training from University of north Carolina at the School of the arts, SUnY Purchase acting Conservatory and Yale School of Drama.

MiChael aarOn lindner (EarlofGloucester) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: RoadShow, ShrektheMusical, SundayintheParkwithGeorge, A

MidsummerNight’sDream and TheLittleMermaid. other Chicago credits include: edna in Hairspray, Oliver, Ragtime (Drury lane Theatre oakbrook); Brigadoon, Fezziwig in AChristmasCarol (goodman Theatre); Hero, WhiteChristmas, SeussicalTheMusical, FortheBoys, TheProducers,IntotheWoods, TheWizardofOz, Cats, 1776

(Marriott Theatre); BachatLeipzig(Writers Theatre); TheFullMonty (Drury lane Theatre Water Tower); TheSecretGarden, SweeneyTodd (Jeff award, Porchlight Music Theatre); and DirtyBlonde (apple Tree Theatre). national tour credits include Harry Bright in MammaMia!. regional credits include: TheFullMonty, Cats and Mame (Maine State Music Theater). Television credits include the role of ebenezer Scrooge in the nationally broadcast production ofAChristmasCarol:TheConcert (PBS). Mr. lindner received his Ba in musical theater from Southern illinois University in Carbondale.

rOss lehMan (Fool) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: TheMerryWivesofWindsor, CyranodeBergerac, AsYouLikeIt, Feste inTwelfthNight,

Dudley Marsh/ Dromio of Syracuse in TheComedyofErrors, TroilusandCressida, HenryIVParts1and2 (at CST and on tour to the royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-avon), KingLearand Cymbeline. other Chicago credits include: FiddlerontheRoof, TheProducers(Marriott Theatre); TheManWhoCametoDinner, WaitingforGodot,AFunnyThingHappenedontheWaytotheForum (Jeff award), StageKiss(goodman Theatre); AManofNoImportance (Jeff award), TheDresser(after Dark award),AsYouLikeItandHamlet (Writers Theatre). Broadway credits include AFunnyThingHappenedontheWaytotheForum, TheTempestand OneFlewOvertheCuckoo’sNest. international credits include koko in the london production of HotMikado (laurence olivier award nomination).

daVid liVely (OldMan) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: HenryVIII, HenryV, JuliusCaesar, BeautyandtheBeast, TimonofAthens, TheMadnessofGeorgeIII,

RomeoandJuliet (2005, 2010) Macbeth, Amadeus, Henry iV in HenryIVParts1and2 (at CST and the royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-avon), MuchAdoAboutNothing, KingJohn, AMidsummerNight’sDream, among others. other Chicago

credits include: WhiteChristmas,TheDrowsyChaperone, MyFairLady, BeautyandtheBeast, 1776 (Marriott Theatre); Cabaret, Sherlock’sLastCase, 1776, Camelot,AnythingGoes, MyFairLady, TheForeigner (Drury lane Theatre); and HayFever (Court Theatre). regional credits include the national tour of TwelveAngryMen(roundabout Theatre Company), and productions with: asolo repertory Theatre, Milwaukee repertory Theater, indiana repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, geva Theatre, new Stage Theatre and The kennedy Center. Television credits include: TheChicagoCode,PrisonBreak (FoX); WhatAboutJoan, Cupid (aBC); and GeorgeWashington (CBS). Film credits include:TheOperaLover and Contagion.

Jesse lUken (Edmund) makes his Chicago debut at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. regional credits include: BurytheDead, St.JoanoftheSlaughterhouse (The actors' gang);TheMerchantofVenice (ethos

Theatre, los angeles); andJamesandtheGiantPeach(Johnson Hall Children's Theater). Film credits include TheGuestand 42. Television credits include: three seasons of Justified (F/X); as well as stints on Star-Crossed (CW); TheMentalist(CBS); Glee (FoX); nCiS (CBS); andCastle (aBC). Mr. luken received his BFa in theatre from Colorado State University.

larry yandO (KingLear) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include: JuliusCaesar, TheTamingoftheShrew,TwelfthNight, Cymbeline, TheTempest, TimonofAthens,

All’sWellThatEndsWell, AntonyandCleopatra, TheMerryWivesofWindsor, HenryIVParts1and2, TheTwoGentlemenofVerona, KingLear and TheTwoNobleKinsmen. Since returning from three years as Scar in TheLionKing (national Tour), Chicago credits include: six years as Scrooge in AChristmasCarol, Candide, TheJungleBook(goodman Theatre); TheDanceofDeath,AsYouLikeIt, Nixon’sNixon, RockettotheMoon, Hamlet, BachatLeipzig (Writers Theatre); AngelsinAmerica, Travesties, An

IdealHusband (Court Theatre); Fake and MotherCourageandHerChildren (Steppenwolf Theatre). Mr. Yando has taught acting at DePaul University, northwestern University and CST, and is a freelance acting/verse coach. His acknowledgments include: ChicagoMagazine’s Best Chicago actor, DePaul University’s excellence in the arts award, one of the nine national recipients of the prestigious lunt-Fontanne Fellowship in 2010, and four Joseph Jefferson awards.

BarBara gaines (Director/ArtisticDirector)is the founder of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she has directed more than thirty of Shakespeare’s plays. Honors include: the 2008

Tony award for outstanding regional Theatre; the prestigious Honorary oBe (officer of the Most excellent order of the British empire) in recognition of her contributions strengthening British-american cultural relations; and Joseph Jefferson awards for Best Production (Hamlet, Cymbeline,KingLear and TheComedyofErrors), and for Best Director (Cymbeline, KingLear andTheComedyofErrors). She has received the Public Humanities award from the illinois Humanities Council, the Spirit of loyola award, and an Honorary Doctorate of letters from the University of Birmingham Uk. She serves on the Shakespearean Council of Shakespeare’s globe Theatre in london and is a life Trustee of northwestern University. She directed giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth for the lyric opera.

Mark Bailey (ScenicandCostumeDesign)returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where he previously designedMacbethand Hamlet. other US credits include RiseandFalloftheCityofMahagonny (los angeles opera) and Pieces (new York). international credits include: TheImportanceofBeingEarnest(Toronto/london); ThePretenders(norway); TheDoubleDealer, TheSeagull (Dublin) and AriadneAufNaxos (Maggio Musicale Florence). Ballet designs include: SleepingBeauty(Hong kong); SnowQueen (london and lithuania) and ATimeThereWas (Copenhagen). as associate artist at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Wales designs include: KingLear, TheTamingoftheShrew, AsYouLikeItand Equus. Credits in london’s West

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end include: Iolanthe, RatPackConfidential, TheWinslowBoy, WhichWitch, PresentLaughter, MackandMabel,LegalFictions and Rent. Designs in musical theater and opera include: SweetSmellofSuccess, FiddlerontheRoof, IntotheWoods, Cabaret, TheThreepennyOpera(royal national Theatre); MadameButterfly(grange Park opera); and Carmen (royal opera, linbury Theatre). MiChael gend (LightingDesigner) makes his Chicago debut at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. off Broadway credits include Annapurna (acorn Theatre). regional credits include: Annapurna, ASteadyRain, PassionPlay, TheIrishCurse,Ivanov(odyssey Theatre ensemble);TheClothPeddler (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion); WeAreProudtoPresent… (The Matrix Theater Company); TheBellsofWest87th (greenway Court Theater); AftertheFall (lillian Theatre); Jekyll&Hyde:TheMusical, IntotheWoods, TheThreepennyOpera (Thousand oaks Civic arts Plaza); Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (Center for new Performance); Sucktion (reDCaT); MotherOnFire (Pasadena Playhouse, 24th Street Theatre); andInsidetheCreoleMafia (evidence room). Mr. gend holds an MFa from the California institute of the arts and serves as the department chair of theatre arts/dance at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Ca.

lindsay JOnes (OriginalMusicandSoundDesigner)has created music for and designed twenty-five productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, including:TheMerryWivesofWindsor, HenryVIII, JuliusCaesar, HenryIVParts1and2, and HenryV. other Chicago credits include productions with: goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, northlight Theatre and lookingglass Theatre Company. Broadway credits includeATimetoKill andBronxBombers. off Broadway credits include: WildwithHappy, TheBrother/SisterPlays, TopSecret, Rx, 1001 and BeautifulThing. regional credits include productions with: guthrie Theater, South Coast repertory, McCarter Theatre, arena Stage, The old globe and Hartford Stage. international credits include productions with the royal Shakespeare Company (Uk) and Stratford Festival (Canada), as well as shows in austria, Zimbabwe, Scotland and South africa. recent film and television scoring credits includeTheBrassTeapot for Magnolia Pictures, and ANoteofTriumph(2006 academy award for Best Documentary, Short Subject) for

HBo Films. He is the recipient of six Jeff awards (with nineteen nominations), two ovation awards, three Drama Desk award nominations, and the Michael Maggio emerging Designer award.

Melissa Veal (WigandMake-upDesigner)has designed wigs and make-up for over eighty productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, including: HenryV, RoadShow, Gypsy, TheMerryWivesofWindsor, CyranodeBergerac, HenryVIII, TheSchoolforLies(Jeff award), SundayintheParkwithGeorge, Othello:TheRemix, TimonofAthens, ElizabethRex (Jeff award nomination), Follies, TheMadnessofGeorgeIII(Jeff award), AsYouLikeIt, TwelfthNight, Amadeus, FunkItUpAboutNothin’,Othello, Passion, HenryIVParts1and2(at CST and royal Shakespeare Company), RoseRage:HenryVIParts1,2and3 (at CST and The Duke on 42nd Street), and all eight CPSShakespeare! productions. She worked for ten seasons with the Stratford Festival, where she received four Tyrone guthrie awards, including the Jack Hutt Humanitarian award. other Canadian credits include work with: Shaw Festival, Mirvish Productions and The grand Theatre in london, ontario. Ms. Veal received the 2007 Hurckes award for artisans and Technicians.

MaTT haWkins (FightChoreography) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for his twelfth production, including: JuliusCaesar, TwelfthNight, ShortShakespeare!AMidsummerNight’sDream, EdwardII, HenryV, ShortShakespeare!RomeoandJuliet, and the CPS Shakespeare! productions of Othello and Hamlet. other Chicago credits include productions with: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, lookingglass Theatre Company, The House Theatre of Chicago, The Hypocrites, Writers Theatre and The neo-Futurists, among others. regional credits include productions with The kennedy Center and the Stratford Festival. Mr. Hawkins is the recipient of five non-equity Jeff awards. He earned his BFa in acting from Southern Methodist University, and his MFa in directing from The University of iowa. Mr. Hawkins currently teaches at northwestern University and loyola University.

dennis J. COnners (ProductionStageManager) returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his credits include Seussical, Othello:TheRemix (CST, london, South korea) and assistant stage manager forHenry

V. other Chicago credits include: Appropriate, Disconnect(Victory gardens Theater); Freud'sLastSession (Mercury Theater, CrC Productions); Mr.Chickee’sFunnyMoney, TheHoudiniBox, GoodnightMoon (Chicago Children’s Theatre);EthanFrome, PeterPan:APlay, LookingglassAlice,Fedra:QueenofHaiti, TheArabianNights, Clay(lookingglass Theatre Company); WhatOnceWeFelt (about Face Theatre); DangerousBeautyandIntheBubble (american Music Theatre Project). off Broadway credits include Clay (lincoln Center Theater) and LookingglassAlice (new Victory Theater). regional credits include Clay (kirk Douglas Theatre, kansas City rep) and LookingglassAlice(alliance Theatre). Mr. Conners is a graduate of northwestern University, where he has served as adjunct lecturer in stage management and stage management mentor.

Johannah hail (AssistantStageManager)returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she was production stage manager for ShortShakespeare!AMidsummerNight’sDream. other Chicago credits include:Mr.Chickee’sFunnyMoney, TheAdventuresofFrogandToad, BudNotBuddy,HaroldandthePurpleCrayon (Chicago Children’s Theatre) and TheElephantandtheWhale (redmoon). Floor manager credits include: Red, AChristmasCarol, Race, CaminoReal, TheIcemanCometh and Crowns (goodman Theatre). regional credits include productions with: Utah Shakespeare Festival, lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, oklahoma Shakespeare Festival and guthrie Theater. Ms. Hail studied technical theatre at Henderson State University.

BOB MasOn (ArtisticAssociate/CastingDirector) begins his fifteenth season as CST’s casting director, where his credits include over eighty productions and thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s canon. in addition to twenty-one productions with Barbara gaines, other productions of note include: eight Sondheim musicals directed by gary griffin; RoseRage:HenryVI,Parts1,2and3, directed by edward Hall; and TheMolièreComedies, directed by Brian Bedford. additional Chicago credits include the precursor to RoadShow, entitled Bounce (goodman Theatre and the kennedy Center for the Performing arts), as well as productions for asolo repertory Theatre, northlight Theatre and northwestern University’s american Music Theatre Project. Prior to casting, Mr.

Mason enjoyed a fifteen-year career as a Jeff award-winning actor and singer, and has been a visiting educator for the School at Steppenwolf, acting Studio Chicago, the University of illinois at Chicago and northwestern University. riCk BOynTOn (CreativeProducer) focuses on current and future artistic planning and production, as well as the development of all new plays, musicals and adaptations for CST. recent projects include: AQBrothers’ChristmasCarol, Cadre (co-director) (CST, Johannesburg, grahamstown, edinburgh, Vancouver); Othello:TheRemix (CST, london, germany, edinburgh, South korea, Sydney); FunkItUpAboutNothin’ (CST, edinburgh, australian tour, london); AFleainHerEar (CST, Williamstown Theatre Festival); TheThreeMusketeers (CST, Boston, london); TheEmperor’sNewClothes, TheAdventuresofPinocchio, MurderforTwo (CST, new York); and TheFeast:anintimateTempest (in collaboration with redmoon). Former artistic director of the Marriott Theatre and multiple Jeff award-winning actor, he has starred in productions nationally, including CST’s production of AFleainHerEar as Camille (Jeff award, after Dark award). as casting director/associate at Jane alderman Casting, projects included: the television series EarlyEdition, MissingPersons, Untouchables and ER; the films WhileYouWereSleeping and Hoodlum, among others; and numerous national tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma mater northwestern University. He serves on the board and is past president of the national alliance for Musical Theatre.

Criss hendersOn (ExecutiveDirector)has produced CST’s past twenty-five seasons. Under his leadership, CST has become one of the nation’s leading regional theaters and one of

Chicago’s most celebrated cultural organizations, honored with the 2008 Tony award for outstanding regional Theatre, as well as multiple laurence olivier and Joseph Jefferson awards. Mr. Henderson has garnered multiple honors, including: the 2013 Cultural innovation award from the Chicago innovation awards; the arts administrator of the Year byArtsManagementMagazine at the kennedy Center and the Chevalier de

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art CreditsDavid Hockney“Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool” 1966acrylic on canvas84x84”©David HockneyPhoto Credit: richard SchmidtCollection: Walker art gallery, liverpoolCopywright © 2014 David Hockney and used with the artist’s permission

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ANGEL EYESComposed by Matt Dennis and earl BrentPublished by Music Sales Corporation (aSCaP) – 100% Used by Permission.Performed by Frank SinatraCourtesy of Capitol records under license from Universal Music enterprises

I’VE GOT ThE WORLD ON A STRINGBy Harold arlen and Ted koehler; Published by S.a. Music llC (50%); 50% published by BMg gold Songs (aSCaP)Performed by Frank SinatraCourtesy of Capitol records under license from Universal Music enterprises

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Staff

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BARBARAGAINESartistic Director

arTisTiCRICkBOYNTONCreative Producer

GARYGRIffINassociate artistic Director

BOBMASONartistic associate/ Casting Director

HEATHERSCHMuCkERassociate Producer

LAuRADuRHAMCasting assistant

GEOffBuTTONassistant Director of KingLear

EVABRENEMANDialect Coach

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KingLear asks this question too, and answers it in many

ways—beginning perhaps with lear’s own question to his

three daughters, and the fevered rage that follows from

it: “Which of you shall we say doth love us most …?” The

naked expression of need, the arrant appeal to greed (most

“love” = biggest bequest), the power-addiction disguised

as relinquishment—all these speak clearly of an old king’s

loosening grip not only on his past potencies but on

reality too. “See better, lear,” urges his best adherent kent,

appalled that his liege is seeing so badly. (“Mad” did not yet

also mean “angry,” but lear’s relentless rage does open a

gateway into madness.)

To Yeats’sWhy? Shakespeare adds a When?: When, if ever,

can we say that the play’s protagonist has gone mad?

Shakespeare had posed this problem before. Hamlet’s

seeming madness has (as Polonius so quotably notes)

plenty of “method in’t.” it is impossible from the playtext

to tell for certain whether and when his feigning overflows

into debilitating authenticity.

Stuart Sherman, Professor of english at Fordham University, is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature and the author of TellingTime:Clocks,DiariesandEnglishDiurnalForm,1660–1785.

Too True

Why should not old men be mad?” asks William Butler yeats at the

start of a great late poem. it is, in its seeming reasonableness, a chilling question—as though the madness of the old might somehow make clear sense.

lear’s shift involves less method and more pain. one daughter remarks, after

his first outburst, that he was always thus: “he hath ever but slenderly known

himself.” The Fool’s counsel is riddled with questions of timing: “Thou shouldst

not have been old before thou hadst been wise.” lear’s reply muddles timing

further: “oh, let me not be mad, sweet heaven!” That “be” is ominous: “go

mad” would have thrust this fear wholly into the future; “be” registers, with a

tremor, lear’s terror of the present tense, the possibility that he may have gone

mad already.

To Yeats’s stark question, the twenty-first century is developing its own

useful though unpoetic answers. increasingly doctors understand dementia

(though not yet well enough) as a physical affliction

often triggered by old age. Yeats answers his

own question differently. in his reckoning, old

men are made mad not by loss of mind but by its

overburdening. Having lived so long, they now

know too much truth: “no single story [can] they

find,” Yeats writes, “of an unbroken happy mind.”

KingLear, fixated on the mind’s terrifying ways

of breaking, combines the poet’s answer and the

doctors’. Tracking the ordeals of lear and gloucester,

Shakespeare shows much about the infirmity of

age, but even more about the burden of deep

knowledge, the pain of learning. gloucester’s son edgar, who avoids madness

only by feigning it, comes to understand knowledge as an endless descent into

unanticipated horrors:

Iamworse[off]thane’erIwas…

AndworseImaybeyet.Theworstisnot

Aslongaswecansay‘Thisistheworst.’

The play proceeds with this remorseless logic, heaping worse on worse until at long

last, and in many ways much too late, remorse arrives to trigger mercy not only for

the characters but for the audience also. When edgar reconciles with his father, he

speaks calmly of acceptance, in tones again redolent of Hamlet (“The readiness

shakespeare shows much about the

infirmity of age, but even more about

the burden of deep knowledge, the pain

of learning.

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itselfinamyriadofways—leavingus,thereadersoftextandperformance,tothink

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is all”): “Men must endure / Their going hence even as their coming hither. /

ripeness is all.” To which gloucester answers in kind, “and that’s true too.”

“Too” is for Shakespeare perhaps the crucial word. He is the great orchestrator

of what he once called the “too-much,” inundating us with word, thought, action,

emotion—and of the “also,” spellbound by more than one truth, capable (as

keats expressed it) of “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any

irritable reaching after fact and reason”—and convenient resolution.

KingLear is probably Shakespeare’s mightiest exploration of thetoo and the

too-much.(This holds true even of its playscripts: he wrote at least two very

different versions. in one gloucester speaks this line, in the other he does not;

almost every production, true to its own vision, is a hybrid of both texts.) if too

much knowing is the way to madness, then this play is built to make us mad.

Shakespeare takes us from worse to worse, before delivering moments of calm

that nonetheless entail unbearable, unfathomable loss.

Why put ourselves through it? That’s a mystery

inbuilt into all tragedy, but maybe most

powerfully into this one. “We must suffer into

truth,” wrote aeschylus, the first known crafter

of tragedies. Yeats concludes that “old men

should be mad.” lear at one point declares “i

shall go mad,” as though it’s his choice and

a choice worth making, the proper price of

knowing things. inKingLearwe get to suffer several lifetimes’ worth of truth

in a single evening. We get a tantalizing chance to refute the Fool: to get past

madness, and to grow wise before we are all too old. n

if too much knowing is the way to madness,

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Tribute Program

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For reBeCCa aliFiMoFFMaryKortmann

For FaTHer roBerT BarronBarbaraJ.Anderson

For Mr. anD MrS. BriT J. BarTTerFredandAngelaStewart

For MarilYn anD BriT BarTTer'S 40TH WeDDing anniVerSarY MichaelandJoanCrouch

For karen BirkelanDHarrietArnold

For riCk BoYnTonKennethAlhadeff

For Dr. MiCHelle CarlonMrs.MichelleCarlonandJuanHereña

For Dan CoHenMarilynRichman

For PHil anD la engelMr.andMrs.MichaelBiscan,Sr.MarciaL.Flick

For HarVe FerrillMr.andMrs.HarrisonI.Steans

For e. Brooke FlanaganEricEvenskaas

For BarBara gaineSManuelL.BrownMackiandPaulEllenbogenJamesP.Tran

For MarilYn HalPerinNajaMaltezos

For SaraH HarDingStevenHarris

For CriSS HenDerSonFayeMarlowe

For MaUriCe HirSCHMilesandBingHirsch

For MaTTHeW HUlTgrenGerardNussbaum

For Jan anD Bill JenTeSAdrianFoster

For JaCk anD BeTSY karP'S 50TH anniVerSarY MaryAnnandStephenRuskin

hOnOrary gifTs

For JiMMie r. alForDMareeG.Bullock

For Dr. MorTon arnSDorFRosemaryCrowley

For roBerT DaViSSueandKentDavis

FORLOISDUNNKathyDunn

For BarrY ekManEllenandRichardShubart

For arlene FielDSTeelV.E.Hicks

For W. ClinTon FiSHerLoisFarrellFisher

For C. PHYlliS HigginSCynthiaBonus

For JiMMY anD regRobertSandall

For norTon H. kaYSandraBlau

For DoDie koHlSusanSalay

For JUDY leWiSKeithandChristineLewis

For aBBY S. MagDoViTZ-WaSSerManDavidWasserman,M.D

For norMa MalloYConorMalloy

For loreTTa MeinDlPatrickJ.Condon

For BernarD "Bernie" SaHlinSLeslieDouglassShelleyGorsonandAlanSalpeterRichardandMaryL.GrayMarilynHeathTobiandMiltonLefton

For MiCHael P. SHaneYFelTNancyCiezkiandDianeKosteck

For SaraJane aViDon anD FeliX SHUMan DickSimpsonAnonymous

For elana ernST SilVerSTeinMadelineandAlanSchmuckler

For MrS. Jean SToneBarbaraDeBoltJohnandPattiFlanaganJoanneGordenMarionKeenanLaurieRentschlerMarilynRushhauptBarbaraSchroatBarbaraStallings

For al ZornKayZorn

MeMOrial gifTs

For BeTSY anD JaCk karP Mr.andMrs.AbelFriedman

For naTHan krUgAprilandJaydeAl-Angary

For CHaSe leVeYTheHowardandKennonMcKeeCharitableFund

For JUDY anD raY MCCaSkeYVirginiaStiglerandStephenStiglerDanandPattyWalsh

For MiaMi UniVerSiTYRev.JohnC.Goss

ForCHriSToPHer PaZDernikEdithB.Gaines

ForPeMBe anD TUnCHOzyurtFamily

For Franklin PoSTonAlysonPoston

For PHiliP S. roSenBerg - my favorite lighting designer EmilyRosenbergPollock

For SHeli roSenBergMarcyCarlin

For MeliSSa SHerManJenniferField

For Jon SHiMBerg anD linDa CroHn RobertLott

For HarVeY STrUTHerSKathrynandBruceJohnson

For THe PiVen arT oF THeaTreCherylAnnMcNamara

For Carl anD MarilYnn THoMaThePattersonFamily

For PaM anD DoUg WalTerLelandHutchinsonandJeanPerkins

ForBill WHelanRobertQuikert

For J. MiCHael WilliaMSCarolynC.Williams

listed below are current members of the First Folio Society, individuals who have included Chicago Shakespeare Theater in their estate plans.

The Society honors their thoughtful commitment to the future of CST.

Mr. and Mrs. nicholas C. Babson

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Barriger

Joan israel Berger

george W. Blossom iii*

Mr. and Mrs. Philip l. engel

edith B. gaines

Michael goldberger

Julie and Parker* Hall

Corinne e. Johnson*

Dr. anne McCreary Juhasz

Judy and John keller

anstiss Hammond krueck

anne e. kutak

raymond and Judy McCaskey

Jonathan F. orser

Sheila a. Penrose and r. ernest Mahaffey

Barbara Petersen

Harold H. Plaut*

rose l. Shure

Chuck Simanek and edna Burke

Michael and Sharon Sloan

The Solomon Family

Helen and richard Thomas

gayle and glenn r. Tilles

linda Vertrees

Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, Founding Principal,

Voa architects

*deceased


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Chicago Shakespeare’s role as a gathering place for audiences, artists

and members of the community. We thank the following individuals and

organizations for their valuable donations of goods and/or services.


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contributing to causes that improve the communities where their employees

live and work. Chicago Shakespeare Theater salutes these employers for

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