Why shouldn’t Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations.

Ruth Wilson fears for screen stars, but as she returns to the West End stage, she says theatre is in fantastic shape — and ...

John Yorke looks at King ... Cordelia, while his two elder daughters, Goneril and Regan, who declared their undying love for their father, bar their doors to him. Driven mad by fury, Lear wanders ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's King Lear with a bold staging ... Naive and prideful, Lear disowns Cordelia, his youngest daughter, who refuses to join the ...

In Iran, artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and playwrights must walk a tightrope to avoid censorship of content the authorities deem inappropriate. But despite political tensions between ...

Tehran (AFP) – An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger ...

The performance of King Lear is ... An ageing and weary Lear decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, based on how well they flatter him in public. - 'No restrictions' - Naive and ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare’s King Lear with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger audiences.

Rejected by his daughters, King Lear faces a mighty storm on the blasted ... The King's third daughter, Cordelia, is offered a third of his kingdom also, but refuses to parrot her sisters ...

Instead, in honor of the wonderful and moving “The Life of Chuck,” the latest King work made into a film, I’m looking back at some of the Stephen King movie adaptations I enjoyed.