King Lear
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 8, 2011
Closed Nov 20, 2011
Opened Nov 8, 2011
Closed Nov 20, 2011
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King Lear, Shakespeare's masterpiece, is one of the towering works of world literature. In no other play is Shakespeare's tragic vision more terrifyingly clear-- and nowhere in his canon does he create a richer or more complex set of characters. When King Lear divides his kingdom among his three daughters, he sets in motion a cascade of violence that sweeps the civilized world to the brink of chaos, and Lear to the edge of madness.
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With the current movie Anonymous calling attention to the argument that William Shakespeare didn't write the plays attributed to him, James MacDonald's version of King Lear, at the Public Theatre, might instead be making the case that Shakespeare wrote the play, but that it isn't a very good one. Rarely has such a wide-of-the-mark revival been committed to the stage.
While Sam Waterston gives a moving account of the dying monarch mourning his already deceased daughter Cordelia (the tall, willowy, adequate Kristen Connelly), he's otherwise disappointing. Although the text frequently makes it clear he fears going mad, Wasterson has already edged several steps down the madness path from t[...]