Between performing as LaFew in All’s Well That Ends Well in Founders’ Theatre, directing Wild and Whirling Words on the Rose Footprint, and teaching acting students in the Summer Training Institute down at the Production and Performing Arts Center, Dennis Krausnick, director of training, even when obliged to be everywhere at every moment, still has time to pursue a personal project. Miraculously, he was able to find five minutes to talk to us about it.
The Lear Project is a solo play in which Dennis takes the audience on a journey through Shakespeare’s King Lear, performing the King’s speeches and exploring his personal relationship to the play and its themes of parent-child relationships from his own roles as son, step-father, and mentor to myriad young acting students. Continue reading ‘Dennis Krausnick’s “The Lear Project”’
