Hinn aldurhnigni konungur L\u00e9r hefur \u00e1kve\u00f0i\u00f0 a\u00f0 skipta konungsr\u00edki s\u00ednu \u00e1 milli d\u00e6tra sinna \u00feriggja, og skal hlutur hverrar d\u00f3ttur fara eftir \u00fev\u00ed hva\u00f0 \u00e1st hennar \u00e1 honum er mikil. En hva\u00f0 vottar sk\u00fdrast um \u00e1st barna til foreldra? Au\u00f0sveipni og fagurgali eldri systranna tveggja e\u00f0a sj\u00e1lfst\u00e6\u00f0i og hreinskilni Kordel\u00edu \u00feeirrar yngstu? \u00c6fur af rei\u00f0i yfir \u00fev\u00ed sem L\u00e9r telur skort \u00e1 \u00e1st, afneitar hann Kordel\u00edu og skiptir r\u00edkinu \u00ed tvennt \u00e1 milli eldri systranna. \u00cd h\u00f6nd fara t\u00edmar grimm\u00fa\u00f0legrar valdabar\u00e1ttu, svikr\u00e1\u00f0a og upplausnar.<\/p>\n
\u00dea\u00f0 er draumur s\u00e9rhvers leikara a\u00f0 f\u00e1 t\u00e6kif\u00e6ri til a\u00f0 takast \u00e1 vi\u00f0 hlutverk L\u00e9s konungs enda hlutverki\u00f0 eitt \u00fea\u00f0 fr\u00e6gasta \u00ed leikh\u00fasb\u00f3kmenntum heimsins. Einn af \u00e1sts\u00e6lustu leikurum \u00fej\u00f3\u00f0arinnar, Arnar J\u00f3nsson, tekst \u00e1 vi\u00f0 \u00feessa \u00e1skorun \u00ed s\u00fdningu \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0leikh\u00fassins. Arnar hefur ekki \u00e1\u00f0ur tekist \u00e1 vi\u00f0 jafn st\u00f3rt hlutverk eftir Shakespere og \u00fea\u00f0 hefur veri\u00f0 m\u00f6gnu\u00f0 upplifun a\u00f0 fylgjast me\u00f0 honum \u00e1 \u00e6fingat\u00edmanum.<\/p>\n
Leikstj\u00f3ri s\u00fdningarinnar, Benedict Andrews, er einn eftirs\u00f3ttasti leikstj\u00f3ri sinnar kynsl\u00f3\u00f0ar \u00ed heiminum \u00ed dag. Hann hefur leikst\u00fdrt \u00ed m\u00f6rgum virtum leikh\u00fasum, b\u00e6\u00f0i \u00ed heimalandinu \u00c1stral\u00edu og \u00ed Evr\u00f3pu.\u00a0 Benedict er \u00feekktur fyrir fram\u00farskarandi vinnu me\u00f0 leikurum og einstaklega \u00e1hrifamiklar t\u00falkanir \u00e1 jafnt n\u00fdjum sem klass\u00edskum verkum og hefur Shakesphere veri\u00f0 honum hugleikin \u00e1 ferlinum. Hann hlaut fyrr \u00e1 \u00feessu \u00e1ri helstu leiklistarver\u00f0laun \u00c1stral\u00edu fyrir s\u00fdningu bygg\u00f0a \u00e1 leikritum Shakespeares um R\u00f3sastr\u00ed\u00f0in, me\u00f0 hina heimsfr\u00e6gu leikkonu Cate Blanchett \u00ed a\u00f0alhlutverki.<\/p>\n
\u00de\u00f3rarinn Eldj\u00e1rn hlaut tilnefningu til \u00edslensku \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ingaver\u00f0launanna fyrir \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ingu s\u00edna \u00e1 L\u00e9 konungi. \u00cd tilnefningunni segir:\u00a0 \u201e\u00der\u00f3ttur og dirfska einkenna \u00fe\u00fd\u00f0ingu \u00de\u00f3rarins \u00f6\u00f0ru fremur, og ber h\u00fan \u00feess merki a\u00f0 vera ger\u00f0 fyrir leiksvi\u00f0 \u00fear sem miklu skiptir a\u00f0 tilsv\u00f6rin s\u00e9u \u00ed senn mergju\u00f0 og beinskeytt.\u201c<\/p>\n
Leikarar:
Arnar J\u00f3nsson, \u00d3laf\u00eda Hr\u00f6nn J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, \u00c1lfr\u00fan Helga \u00d6rn\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir, Margr\u00e9t Vilhj\u00e1lmsd\u00f3ttir, Vigd\u00eds Hrefna P\u00e1lsd\u00f3ttir, P\u00e1lmi Gestsson, Eggert \u00deorleifssson, Atli Rafn Sigur\u00f0arson, Stef\u00e1n Hallur Stef\u00e1nsson, \u00d3lafur Darri \u00d3lafsson, Baldur Trausti Hreinsson, \u00d3lafur Egill Egilsson, Hilmir Jensson, Hannes \u00d3li \u00c1g\u00fastsson.<\/p>\n
A\u00f0rir listr\u00e6nir a\u00f0standendur:
Leikmynd: B\u00f6rkur J\u00f3nsson. B\u00faningar: Helga I. Stef\u00e1nsd\u00f3ttir. T\u00f3nlist: Hildur Ingveldard\u00f3ttir Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir. Hlj\u00f3\u00f0h\u00f6nnun: B.J. Nilsen. Dramt\u00farg: Matthew Whittet. L\u00fdsing: Halld\u00f3r \u00d6rn \u00d3skarsson. A\u00f0sto\u00f0arleikstj\u00f3ri: Fri\u00f0rik Fri\u00f0riksson.<\/p>\n
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Eitt af h\u00f6fu\u00f0verkum leikb\u00f3kmenntanna, L\u00e9r konungur, er j\u00f3las\u00fdning \u00dej\u00f3\u00f0leikh\u00fassins. R\u00e9tt eins og undangengin 60 \u00e1r er j\u00f3lafrums\u00fdningin \u00e1 annan dag j\u00f3la markar einn af h\u00e1punktum menningarl\u00edfsins. S\u00fdningin \u00e1 L\u00e9 konungi ver\u00f0ur engin undantekning og er um sannkalla\u00f0a h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0ars\u00fdningu er a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a. Einn af eftirs\u00f3ttustu leikstj\u00f3rum \u00ed heiminum \u00ed dag, Benedict Andrews leikst\u00fdrir,\u00a0 Arnar J\u00f3nsson fer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allar-frir","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiklist.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}