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...It’s her brother, the theatre manager and notably less talented actor, John Philip Kemble, who gets Hamlet, Lear, Richard III....
...Richard III? Macbeth? 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....
...Elena Langer’s The Dong with a Luminous Nose gives Edward Lear’s nonsense poem to the chorus (there is no vocal soloist here) and manages to keep the words at least tolerably clear by creating diaphanous...
...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...
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...“I wrote a chapter on King Lear, and he said, ‘All that stuff at the front is very interesting but you’re basically just showing off....
...From 1947 he spent three years as director of productions at the Royal Opera House, where he caused uproar by staging Richard Strauss’s Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí....
...He’s done King Lear. He’s done Hamlet, Othello. But the staging in this one is really contemporary....
...Soon he is toying with his children’s loyalty (King Lear), insulting Kamala Harris (more Richard III), and publicly humiliating Ted Cruz in the guise of support (Julius Caesar)....
...In 1984, he gave a sensational, glitteringly nasty performance as Richard III, scuttling around the stage on crutches as the “bottled spider” of Shakespeare’s text....
...As if in King Lear, poor Monterone gets blinded, a gory twist that might have unnerved even an ardent Shakespearean such as Verdi. From there the timescale shifts gradually to the present....
...Verdi was so inspired by Shakespeare, and this is the King Lear opera that he never managed to write....
...He constantly and hilariously bullies younger actor Richard Dreyfuss (Liam Murray Scott), calling him a “Beverly Hills cream puff” who lacks the fibre needed to make a career as an artist....
...Three operas, led by Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, will rub shoulders with a musical, My Fair Lady in concert performances, and — a playgoers’ first for any summer festival — King Lear, cast entirely...
...Lots of the plays, from Richard III to Lear to Macbeth to Hamlet, treat of those ghastly moments in history where, if change doesn’t happen, we will be living in poisoned times . . ....
...It’s been said that it’s the task of academic economists to play the role of the Lear-like fool, telling truth to power and challenging convention....
...“Every episode [has] to be about something new and presented in an exciting way,” pronounced story editor Richard Bates ambitiously, buoyed by the era’s lust for novelty....
...And in a Southbank documentary broadcast at the time he and Hopkins were working on King Lear in 1986, Hopkins said, “[Lear’s rage is] so volcanic… it cracks him wide open… I have that rage.”...
...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....
...Morris is dying of liver cancer, but still harbours dreams of delivering Lear onstage....
...He never lost his hold on the popular imagination, not to mention his appeal for artists such as composer Richard Strauss....
...Lead actor Richard Burbage is frantic, reminding Will that their patron — King James — is not a man who likes to be kept waiting....
...The Bard wrote numerous penetrating studies of madness of one kind or another — Hamlet, Lear, Leontes — but only Richard responds to nemesis so corrosively....
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