KING LEAR

Production credits

By William Shakespeare

Adapted and directed by Phillip Breen

Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo
October 2025

Cast
Lear — Shinobu Otake
Goneril — Rie Miyazawa
Edmund — Ryo Narita
Cordelia — Erika Ikuta
Edgar — Ouji Suzuka
Oswald — Mari Nishio
Duke of Albany — Yasumasa Oba
Duke of Cornwall — Shinya Matsuda
King of France, 1st Servant — Takuma Wada
Duke of Burgundy, Messenger — Hisashi Inoue
Gentleman — Kumi Yoshida
Curan, messenger — Takaki Higa
Old man — Tatsumi Aoyama
Earl of Kent — Eiji Yokota
Regan — Tamae Ando
Fool — Masanobu Katsumura
Earl of Gloucester — Hajime Yamazaki

Musicians

Momoko Aida (Viola)
Daisuke Kumagai (Percussion)
Manami Hirai (Cello)

Creatives
Adapter & Director — Phillip Breen
Assistant Director — Keiko Sugeta
Set Designer — Max Jones
Costume Designer — Ruth Hall
Translator — Hiromasa Kiuchi
Lighting Designer — Jiro Katsushiba
Composer — Paddy Cunneen
Sound Designer — Tomomi Nagano
Video Designer — Nobuhiro Matsuzawa
Hair and Make-up designer — Yuko Sato
Fight Choreographer — Naoki Kurihara
Assistant set designer — Ai Harada
Assistant costume designer — Urara Sakurai
Assistant composer — Kotaro Hata
Assistant director — Keiko Sugeta
Assistant Video Designer — So Horita
Assistant Fight Choreographer — Koji Suzuki
Lighting Operator — Masami Hirai
Lighting Operator — Atsuko Sato
Lighting Operator — Ikuto Matsuyama
Lighting Operator — Naoko Ise
Lighting Programmer — Hiroko Suzuki
Wardrobe — Aya Kakino
Wardrobe — Miki Hagihara
Wardrobe — Junko Takanaka
Hair and Make-up staff — Keiko Nebuya
Hair and Make-up staff — Tamami Mori
Special Props — Aquio Fukuda
Prop maker — Naoko Hatakeyama
Prop maker — Manami Hasegawa
Costume Maker — Fumika Yokoyama
Costume Maker — Mayumi Izumida
Costume Maker — Fumiko Nakamura
Costume Maker — Fumi Iguchi
Video crew — Ryuichi Matsumoto
Video crew — Azusa Saito


Interpreters
For Director — Yoko Tokita
For Set & Costume Designer — Miyoko Ito, Mayumi Oshima
For Composer — Nao Suzuki


Production
Stage Manager — Junpei Komitsu
Assistant Stage Manager — Takahiko Hamano
Assistant Stage Manager — Mayumi Imai
Assistant Stage Manager — Kazumi Ishigaki
Assistant Stage Manager — Shotaro Togawa
Assistant Stage Manager — Miharu Komatsu
Assistant Stage Manager — Gantetsu Seto
Assistant Stage Manager — Keisuke Uramoto
Assistant Stage Manager — Hikari Hirano
Assistant Stage Manager — Haruki Ito
Assistant Stage Manager — Tomoka Sato
Production Assistant — Mio Hayashi