Christian Doyle of Newburyport takes on the role of Edgar and Daniel Burns of Methuen is Edmund in the Northern Essex Community College production of King Lear presented next month in the Chester W. Hawrylciw Theater on the third floor of the Spurk Building on the Haverhill campus.

The miseries and joys of humanness are explored in the Northern Essex Community College production of “King Lear,” presented this month in the Chester Hawrylciw Theatre on the third floor of the Spurk Building on the Haverhill campus.

Performances will be held Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7 and Friday, November 13, and Saturday, November 14, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a performance on Thursday, November 12, at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the door of online at www.MVarts.info

“The play ‘King Lear’ encompasses all of society from the exalted monarchy to the lowly beggar,” says Theater Professor Jim Murphy, who takes on the role of Lear. “The play explores the journey of man through life and deals with the extreme emotions of tenderness, anger, anguish, and despair experienced in the journey. The play shows both human cruelty and misery along with goodness, loyalty, devotion, kindness and self-sacrifice. In short, what it is to be human.”

The cast includes:

Haverhill

Armando Belliard-Harmon       Oswald

Trevon Gilchrist                           Ensemble

Erin Lannon                                  Student stage manager

Geehae Moon                                Goneril

Amesbury

Emma Grace Deily-Swearingen   Ensemble

Newburyport

Abigail Seabrook                          Cordelia

Christian Doyle                             Edgar

Colin Sarff                                      Ensemble

Jamie Buscemi                              Ensemble

Salisbury

Hunter Gouldthorpe                    Duke of Cornwall

Methuen

Daniel Burns                                 Edmund

Caitlin Kennedy                            Regan

Tewksbury

Sarah Bird                                      The Fool

Salem, NH

Allyson Catanzaro                        Ensemble

E.P. Lehner                                    Ensemble

Lauren Smith                                Ensemble

Paul Kelly                                       Duke of Albany

Hampton, NH

Jarrod Cobb                                   Ensemble

Alumni Cast Members

J. Mark Morrison

Haverhill, MA                                Earl of Gloucester

Craig Ciampa

Billerica, MA                                  Earl of Kent

Faculty

Jim Murphy                                   King Lear

Ensemble members play a variety of characters: servants, soldiers, doctors, attendants, etc.

For additional information contact Jim Murphy at jmurphy@necc.mass.edu