This section offers readers a unique opportunity to learn more about the current production from the first day of rehearsals to opening night. There are interviews with;

the director Bill Alexander and his assistant, Emma Stuart

Corin Redgrave [Lear]

Emily Raymond [Gonerill] and Siān Brooke [Cordelia]

David Hargreaves [Gloucester] and Matthew Rhys [Edmund]

John Normington [the Fool]

Louise Bangay, who understudies all three of Lear's daughters

The set designer Tom Piper

You can also read extracts from Jacqui O'Hanlon's rehearsal diary and enjoy a gallery of photographs from past productions.