Date: 2007 Posted by:justjill Cast: Not given Credits: Produced by Patrik Fleming and Jill Blum Duration: 6.63
An enjoyable skit from a Shakespeare class at the University of Baltimore, in which Gladys and Lorraine gossip about Ophelia and Gertude, the Macbeths’ marital disharmony and the three witches’ skin care problems, and King Lear, interspersed with advertisements for the King Lear Guide to Retirement Planning and Rid-a-Kin, the ideal poison for troublesome relatives. Some audio problems along the way, but bitchy fun.
Date: 2005 Posted by:mf99 Credits: The credits, in MTV Style, say “Lear”, by Wilson Mccutchan, on Phat Phish Records Cast: David Mclean (King Lear), Chris Teolis (Cordelia), Kevin Hagino (The Fool), James Mangan (Stunt Lear), Andrew McConnon (Regan), Victor Wong (Goneril), Wilson Mccutchan (Lead Vocal) Duration: 7.07
A first-rate parody of the video for Eminem’s ‘Stan’, changing the story from that of an obsessed fan who writes repeatedly to Eminem before killing himself and his girlfriend, to King Lear writing to his daughter Cordelia (“Dear Cordelia, I wrote to you, but you still ain’t calling, hope there’s not a problem, I sent two letters to France in autumn…”), complete with the sample from Dido’s ‘Thank You’ to intercut the familiar tale of ‘drama, violence and death’. It works ingeniously well, finding adroit parallels in these two tales of disordered passion, maybe even offering some insight into the psychodrama that is King Lear.
Date: 2008 Posted by:ronh100 Credits: Created by ronh100 Duration: 1.36
A palpably weird animated video in which three meerkats give us a reading from King Lear, Act 2 Scene 2 (“thou art a boil, A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, In my corrupted blood…”). One meerkat announces the scene, one reads Lear’s words, one shares the words of Goneril and Regan. Its creator ronh100 specialises in animated heads, usually of famous or iconic figures, singing songs or making variously bizarre statements. Here there seems to be no better reason for meerkats to be giving a reading of King Lear than that is not what you would ever expect of meerkats. Or King Lear.
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