the name's lear, king lear

King Lear will play at the Everyman for a month from October 30 to November 29, although tickets aren't yet on sale.
I suspect they are likely to be a hot commodity and hopefully will introduce all sorts of people who don't think Shakespeare etc is for them to the delights of live theatre.
I know I can't wait.
Postlethwaite was the starriest in a starry line-up of directors, writers and actors the Playhouse/Everyman gathered for a press launch yesterday lunchtime.

He said he was looking forward to coming back to peform in Liverpool, the "extraordinary city and a city that will never lie down.
"I learned by trade at the Everyman and learned to understand why I was an actor, why it was an important profession.
"I owe an enormous debt to the Everyman theatre."
Postlethwaite also says the prospect of playing Lear (he's only ever understudied the part, although admittedly it was understudy to Michael Gambon at the RSC!!) it is "terrifying and quite exciting" and a "big, big privilege to be able to be part of it.
"If I don't do it now, I will probably be too old to do it later."
There were lots of other gems unveiled at the event yesterday.
Matthew Kelly, who garnered acclaim for his role in Of Mice and Men at the Playhouse a couple of years ago, returns with son Matthew Rixon - who appeared on the Everyman stage with his dad when he was nine - in Beckett's absurdist play Endgame.
There's the new working of Chekhov's Three Sisters called Three Sisters on Hope Street and penned by Diane Samuels and Tracy-Ann Oberman (yes, Chrissie from EastEnders).
Later on in the season there are two new musicals, Once Upon A Time At the Adelphi which we're assured is an affectionate look at the old girl and partially set in her early 20th century heyday, and Erics about the legendary Liverpool club.
We were played one of the songs from the Adelphi musical (very upbeat with just a little dollop of cheese but I can see it on the stage of the Empire after it has done its dash at the Playhouse), and heard from the author of Erics, Mark Davies Markham.
The former Bootle tax collector has form with musicals having penned the Boy George vehicle Taboo and the forthcoming Liverpool Nativity (albeit with songs from Liverpool bands).
He's chatted to all the movers and shakers from the golden era of Erics, Wylie, Cope, Casey etc, but the story is essentially very personal to him.
Bring it on, bring it all on.