Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1152740
Dover Castle The courtyard in Dover Castle features heavily as it's here Lear and Cordelia are led in wearing prison uniforms, and also where the fight between Edmund and Edgar takes place. Large field tents, ammo boxes and equipment were added to set the scene. It was decided that the fight would take the form of a martial arts fight, rubber matting was laid out as a boxing ring would be (as if in reality this is where the soldiers would practice). In a large room in the castle, directly above the courtyard, the British army HQ was staged. The crew had to remove all the tapestries and furniture, with great help from the crew at Dover Castle. A large central nerve centre was set up, with maps and lamps, and the majority of the scene revolved around this central table. The very final scene sees Kent following a large gurney containing the dead bodies of Lear and his three daughters, out through the main entrance arch into the fog beyond. ADG Peter Francis, Production Designer Astrid Sieben, Supervising Art Director Kira Kemble, Assistant Art Director Daisy Mason, Standby Art Director Charlotte Watts Dirickx, Set Decorator D E F G