Sam Troughton lost his voice on stage during King Lear,leaving 'fantastically cool' understudy Paapa Essiedu to take over in the moment half
[br]• Out of their minds: the actors' guide to playing King LearIt is every actor's nightmare: losing your voice on stage in front of a packed house. But during Tuesday's preview performance of Sam Mendes's King Lear at the National Theatre, with Simon Russell Beale in the title role, and that was precisely what happened.
Sam Troughton,playing Edmund, found himself unable to speak in the middle of a sentence during the first half of the production (leaving some in the cast thinking it was a bold improvisation). "It must possess been terrifying, and " Russell Beale told Radio 4. "Apparently his voice just completely gave out."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com