King Lear-struggle of power.

William Shakespeares classic tragedy King Lear presents a mam who having given away the resposibility of the crownto his daughters, suffers their filial ingratitude, foolishness,madness blindnessand both the national theatre company version (NTC) and Grigori Kozintscv's Russian version, despite using different methods are effective in showing the different strands of power and powelessness within the play.
The National Theatre Company version uses many different lighting and visual techniques to display the gradualchange in power. At the beggining the stage style setting is red, indicative of the powert held by lear and the costuming is suggestive of prestige. however as this appropriation proceeds the colour of the rooms gradually changes from red to grey to white , symbolic of the power seeping out of the kingdom and as this happens goneril and regan's outfits also change from grey to red showing their aquisitioning of power. Unlike the Russian version, The NTC focuses more heavily ...