Theatre Studio of IDP’s Uzhik Production of King Lear, directed by Viacheslav Yehorov, staged at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 14 and 15 June 2024

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  • Cristie Carson Royal Holloway University of London, Great Britain image/svg+xml

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https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.31.25

Author Biography

  • Cristie Carson, Royal Holloway University of London, Great Britain

    Christie Carson is Reader Emerita in Shakespeare and Performance in the Department of English at Royal Holloway University of London. She is the co-editor of four collections of essays for Cambridge University Press: Shakespeare’s Globe: A Theatrical Experiment with Farah Karim-Cooper (2008), Shakespeare in Stages: New Theatre Histories with Christine Dymkowski (2010), Shakespeare Beyond English with Susan Bennett (2013), which documents the Globe to Globe Festival of 2012, and Shakespeare and the Digital World with Peter Kirwan (2014). In 2021, she published Robert Lepage’s Intercultural Encounters as part of the Cambridge Elements series, and her critical history of the Stratford Festival (Ontario, Canada) was published as part of the Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare in the Theatre series in July 2024.

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Hreshko, Dmytro. King Lear: How We Looked for Love During the War (UKR 2023). https://takflix.com/en/films/kinglear. Accessed 2 February 2026.

Khomami, Nadia. “«The war was not going to stop me»: amateur Ukrainian actors stage King Lear in UK”. The Guardian, 11 June 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/jun/11/war-not-stop-me-amateur-ukrainian-actors-stage-king-lear-uk. Accessed 2 February 2026.

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Published

2025-12-30

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 46 (2025): Thematic Volume: Shakespeare Shelter for Ukraine

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Other

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How to Cite

Carson, Cristie. 2025. “Theatre Studio of IDP’s Uzhik Production of King Lear, Directed by Viacheslav Yehorov, Staged at the Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon, on 14 and 15 June 2024”. Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance 31 (46): 345-49. https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-8530.31.25.
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