King Lear
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 19, 2006
Closed Oct 15, 2006
Opened Sep 19, 2006
Closed Oct 15, 2006
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King Lear is Shakespeare at his most profound, an ancient tale of a king and his three daughters, which has become the most powerful drama in Western literature. Both an intimate family drama and explosive political commentary, Lear explores with stark violence and devastating wit the most basic questions of human existence: destiny, love and duty, friendship and betrayal, leadership and loyalty, and the overwhelming inevitability of a life nearing its end. Stacy Keach returns to the Goodman in the title role. Robert Falls directs.
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Friday, October 6th
Sunday, October 8th at 7:30 P.M. (Matinee still on)
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Artistic director Robert Falls opens his 20th anniversary season at the Goodman Theatre with an oversexed King Lear -- with the occasionally brilliant Stacy Keach in the title role -- that is as eccentric as it is spectacular. As one expects from the Tony Award-winning director, his vision is richly realized and challenging. It's also perverse, disagreeable, dark, and violent, although no more so than the times in which we live.
Falls' thoroughly contemporary take on Shakespeare's great tragedy uses costumes (by Ana Kuzmanic), Middle Eastern and Slavic music, and extensive cigarette smoking to suggest a Balkan locale. (Serbian is even spoken several times.) There, a hard-drinking, sexually[...]