Christian Doyle of Newburyport takes on the role of Edgar. and Daniel Burns of Methuen is Edmund. in the Northern Essex Community College production of King Lear.
The miseries and joys of humanness are explored in the Northern Essex Community College production of “King Lear,” beginning Friday in the Chester Hawrylciw Theatre on the third floor of the Spurk Building on the Haverhill campus.
Performances will be Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6, and 7, and Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and 14, at 7:30 p.m. There will also be a performance Thursday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the door of online at www.MVarts.info
“The play ‘King Lear’ encompasses all of society from the exalted monarchy to the lowly beggar,” says Theater Professor Jim Murphy, who takes on the role of Lear. “The play explores the journey of man through life and deals with the extreme emotions of tenderness, anger, anguish, and despair experienced in the journey. The play shows both human cruelty and misery along with goodness, loyalty, devotion, kindness and self-sacrifice. In short, what it is to be human.”
The cast includes:
| Haverhill | |
| Armando Belliard-Harmon | Oswald |
| Trevon Gilchrist | Ensemble |
| Erin Lannon | Student stage manager |
| Geehae Moon | Goneril |
| Amesbury | |
| Emma Grace Deily-Swearingen | Ensemble |
| Newburyport | |
| Abigail Seabrook | Cordelia |
| Christian Doyle | Edgar |
| Colin Sarff | Ensemble |
| Jamie Buscemi | Ensemble |
| Salisbury | |
| Hunter Gouldthorpe | Duke of Cornwall |
| Methuen | |
| Daniel Burns | Edmund |
| Caitlin Kennedy | Regan |
| Tewksbury | |
| Sarah Bird | The Fool |
| Salem, N.H. | |
| Allyson Catanzaro | Ensemble |
| E.P. Lehner | Ensemble |
| Lauren Smith | Ensemble |
| Paul Kelly | Duke of Albany |
| Hampton, N.H. | |
| Jarrod Cobb | Ensemble |
| Alumni Cast Members | |
| J. Mark Morrison, Haverhill | Earl of Gloucester |
| Craig Ciampa, Billerica | Earl of Kent |
| Faculty | |
| Jim Murphy | King Lear |
For additional information contact Jim Murphy at [email protected].