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...The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...July 9 to August 17; further information and tickets here ‘King Lear’, Fairfax Studio (Arts Centre Melbourne) Robert Menzies (who also appears in the above-mentioned drama Seventeen) plays Lear in Peter...
...“Since at least King Lear, the issue of how parents spend their old age and the tricky topic of inheritances has been a source of stress,” says Andrew Scott, author of The Longevity Imperative....
...He did with Ran (1985), a fiercely beautiful tilt at King Lear. He also made Dreams (1990), a haunting episodic film with one section featuring Martin Scorsese as Van Gogh....
...Who are the good or great Lears?...
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...Anyway, it’s as good an opportunity as any to encourage you to read our former chief film critic, Nigel Andrews, on going back to his stage roots to play the mad monarch....
...sang countertenor Andrew Watts. “The liberty to be free! Hope! Hope!” Olga Neuwirth’s Keyframes for a Hippogriff could have been written for today, but it was not....
...And with all the Lears and Macbeths, the Cyranos and Arturo Uis, that Plummer had also played, in a long life as both stage star and screen star....
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...During the Californian gold rush, there are stories of miners thronging improvised theatres to see Richard III and King Lear, and touring companies at every corner of the frontier....
...Talking about his heartbreaking performance as a bereaved father in Simon Stephens’s Sea Wall, Andrew Scott spoke about playing the joy in the piece: “It’s much more important for me to play the lightness...
...British sitcom Upstart Crow reimagines The Bard as the ordinary bloke he may have been, with a script that’s slightly more accessible than King Lear....
...But in 8½, unlike King Lear, something will come of nothing. Inside the monstrous belly of the movie-in-movie, the true movie finds warmth, growth and life....
...by Carl Hunter (writer of Grow Your Own), two gifted aficionados of British social mannerism, it’s a kind of ambulant chamber drama: a game of musical houses with Nighy’s itinerant dad — its lightweight Lear...
...Our near-interruption happily resolved with no hint of profanity, Cox talks about the inspiration behind his latest portrayal, the 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie....
...There’s an old man primed for stoical revolt after his son says “Dad, please go to a nursing home” — he leaves to wander the cutpurse streets like a cut-price Lear — and there’s a petty hoodlum, the assault...
...The sardonic wit of Kemp’s replacement, Robert Armin, inspired the wisecracking characters of Feste in Twelfth Night and the Fool in Lear....
...devoting his next moment, or next half-century, to embracing the dim and thankless thunder of agitprop film-making, as if the world wants to be lectured by a wise clown ill-advisedly turned curmudgeonly Lear...
...Dunbar , by Edward St Aubyn, Hogarth, RRP£16.99/$25, 213 pages Andrew Dickson is author of ‘Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe’ (Vintage) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe...
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...Short new works by Magnus Lindberg, Andrew Norman and Brett Dean in the second half exemplified the kind of contemporary music that Rattle has championed — lucid, communicative, clever and ebullient....
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