The Royal Shakespeare Company
Legendary Peter Brook staging of King Lear is performed in Bucharest as part of Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 tour.
Cristina Mateescu, 10.01.2025, 14:00
When it comes to theatre, no one can bring people together quite like Shakespeare, his works being well-known and much performed across Eastern Europe, even at the height of the Cold War.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1964 tour to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s birth was met with great enthusiasm behind the Iron Curtain. Bucharest was one of the cities in the eastern bloc visited by the company.
In today’s show we’re bringing you a rare recording from what was to become one of the most memorable theatre productions to be staged in communist-era Romania: the legendary staging of King Lear by Peter Brook featuring Paul Scofield as Lear and Diana Rigg as Cordelia.
