often seen in the street without a hat

Oh, it sounds wonderful. I think there's a line of dialogue, isn't there, as Cordelia's corpse is brought on - 'My poor fool is hanged', and that's ostensibly meant to refer to Cordelia, but I've heard of several productions' playing on the fool's death as well, and there's plenty of wordplay that kind of invites it... also there's some notion about the two characters' being played by the same actor in the original staging, though I'm not sure I'm convinced. The Q&A session sounds quite the bonus. You should've asked about the boots. How did they do the blinding scene, by the way? We were supposed to come up with a means of staging that for A-level Eng Lit. I decided they should all go into the wings and make loud popping noises, then hurl a couple of eyeballs back onto the stage. I was vetoed.