Shakespeare in a Box: King Lear

About this book

All the living rooms a stage! And your friends and family merely players with their exits and entrances--and 45 minutes of utter enjoyment. Created by an imaginative drama teacher The Home Shakespeare Festival is a complete theater company in a box. Home Shakespeare is like a host-your-own-murder game but with an intellectual and artistic bent. Beginning with one of Shakespeares best-known best-loved works the tragedy King Lear each kit has everything needed to produce and act out a thoroughly entertaining 45-minute version of the play: cards for a director and technical director showing how to cast the play direct it stage it and create easy sets and sound effects; cards for each of the major parts with a summary of the character and suggestions on how to play him or her; ten cleverly abridged copies of the script; and key props. For King Lear the kit includes a retractable stage dagger a plastic eyeball and a jesters cap. Each kit also contains a booklet introducing the wonderful world of Shakespeare acting tips and exercises recipes for grog and other good party games to play.