And of course, centrally and captivatingly, Page’s Lear allows you to see the king’s decline, from arrogant entitlement to desolate madness, in an almost clinical, step-by-step disintegration.

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does ...

Perhaps needless to say, most of these characters are dead by the final scene. Each new production of “Lear” offers its own take on whether the play’s tragedy branches from the titular royal ...

The scene hints at some greater context to his abdication – usually Lear seems to stand down so he can go on a massive bender – but whatever the case, after the King and his daughters Regan ...

On impulse, I picked up my old college copy of “King Lear” and looked through it for the scene of Lear raving at the storm. “King Lear” is about lots of things—power, family, helplessness.

Her take on King Lear (main picture) offers a full-bodied, slow-burn version of this devastating drama, where Danny Sapani’s masterful performance as Lear sears the stage. ... The final scene in which ...

There’s a whole lot of shouting from the off, especially by Anthony Hopkins’ Lear – although by the final scenes he achieves a more subtle tenderness with Florence Pugh’s Cordelia.

Danny Sapani and Clarke Peters in King Lear at the Almeida Theatre, ... so that many of the final scenes play out under cold grey spotlights that reduce figures to silhouettes bracketed by darkness.