Hints and tips:
...Welcome to Yaël Farber’s searing King Lear — a mighty production that fuses the sense of ritual so often central to the director’s work with a modern setting to create a shattering piece of theatre, led...
...Why does Peters think the king tolerates this candid oddball? “I guess because he’s so much a part of Lear’s consciousness,” he says. “You can lie to the world, but you cannot lie to yourself....
...King Lear Wyndham’s Theatre, London “You are old,” characters keep telling Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear — which feels a bit rough as, at 62, he makes for a pretty sprightly monarch....
...The casting yields razor-sharp character sketches from Weber, a revered grandee of stage and screen, as a dethroned king rather harder to sympathise with than Lear....
...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....
...The Tsar, King Dodon (Dmitry Ulyanov is sensational in the role), appears in grime-encrusted underwear from the start, a Falstaff-like King Lear....
...There are good reasons for that: I can’t imagine anything that I would have found more off-putting than if, when I booked my tickets to see Danny Sapani’s King Lear, I had had to fill out a diversity and...
...Lear....
...But as the Duke of Albany warns King Lear, “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.” By making the cost explicit to fund managers, the unbundling rules prompted them to slash research budgets....
...Now try this I had a lovely weekend: Arsenal Women won, I had a very good time at the excellent Yaël Farber-directed version of King Lear at the Almeida, and I finished another Mick Herron novel (Spook...
...A matching soy sauce dish and chopstick rest are also available. maison-ghibli.com Palmito Mixed Fruit napkin rings, £45 for a set of fourTo misquote King Lear, “O, reason not the need for fruity napkin...
...Her poem on the subject, “A Dog, A Horse, A Rat” was typically allusive in taking its title from a line in King Lear, but painfully plain in its monosyllabic verse....
...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....
...At one point there’s a reference to King Lear, but it’s Hamlet who comes to mind in the various existential meditations....
...One of many absorbing passages draws on the Japanese art of kintsugi (repairing shattered pottery by filling cracks with powdered gold) and even King Lear to ask if maybe we all need the occasional wobble...
...Succession seemed able to bear any amount of King Lear-for-billionaires cultural elevation....
...Sure, I did watch the last episode of Succession, and gosh, didn’t we all draw on the lessons of King Lear in this magnificent retelling of the Shakespearean epic....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...As reporters noted, Pétain at times resembled a confused King Lear, “immobile, impassive, impenetrable”....
...I can see why this kind of contest appeals to patriarchs: King Lear-like, they give their adult children an incentive to pledge loyalty and affection, and use them to reinforce their control....
...In Shakespeare’s King Lear, which suitor rejects Lear’s daughter Cordelia when she’s disinherited by her father? The books in which paperback publishers’ Classics series have a red spine?...
...And if you’re truly mad or neglectful of your limitations, you can play King Lear. As I am about to. Why?...
...Read it and you suddenly see more clearly the impact of loss on so many of Shakespeare’s plays — not just Hamlet and King Lear, but in the longed-for reunions in Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale and The...
...Content is king Streaming services’ insatiable appetite for documentaries has led to a deluge of content....
International Edition