{"id":29668,"date":"2015-10-26T19:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2015\/10\/26\/necc-presents-king-lear\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:19:33","slug":"necc-presents-king-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/10\/26\/necc-presents-king-lear\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Presents \u201cKing Lear\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12251\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/10\/King-Lear-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12251\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/10\/King-Lear-newsroom-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Doyle of Newburyport takes on the role of Edgar and Daniel Burns of Methuen is Edmund on 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.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The miseries and joys of humanness are explored in the Northern Essex Community College production of \u201cKing Lear,\u201d presented this\u00a0month in the Chester Hawrylciw Theatre on the third floor of the Spurk Building on the Haverhill campus.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe play \u2018King Lear\u2019 encompasses all of society from the exalted monarchy to the lowly beggar,\u201d says Theater Professor Jim Murphy, who takes on the role of Lear. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cast includes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haverhill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Armando Belliard-Harmon \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Oswald<\/p>\n<p>Trevon Gilchrist \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ensemble<\/p>\n<p>Erin Lannon \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Student stage manager<\/p>\n<p>Geehae Moon \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Goneril<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amesbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emma Grace Deily-Swearingen\u00a0\u00a0 Ensemble<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newburyport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abigail Seabrook \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cordelia<\/p>\n<p>Christian Doyle \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Edgar<\/p>\n<p>Colin Sarff \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ensemble<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Buscemi \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ensemble<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salisbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Gouldthorpe \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Duke of Cornwall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methuen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Burns \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Edmund<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Kennedy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Regan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tewksbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Bird \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Fool<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salem, NH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allyson Catanzaro \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ensemble<\/p>\n<p>E.P. Lehner \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ensemble<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Smith \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ensemble<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kelly \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Duke of Albany<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hampton, NH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jarrod Cobb \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ensemble<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alumni Cast Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J. Mark Morrison<\/p>\n<p>Haverhill, MA \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Earl of Gloucester<\/p>\n<p>Craig Ciampa<\/p>\n<p>Billerica, MA \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Earl of Kent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim Murphy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 King Lear<\/p>\n<p>Ensemble members play a variety of characters: servants, soldiers, doctors, attendants, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information contact Jim Murphy at <a href=\"mailto:jmurphy@necc.mass.edu\">jmurphy@necc.mass.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The miseries and joys of humanness are explored in the Northern Essex Community College production of \u201cKing Lear,\u201d presented this\u00a0month in the Chester Hawrylciw Theatre on the third floor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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