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...“We’ve been burdened with Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man, [King] Lear, Gulliver’s Travels with the [immortal but ageing] Struldbrugs,” says Rossor....
...Timothy West’s performance in the title role, however, is certainly the best so far of 2016 and some way beyond. At 81, West is a year older than Lear himself....
...I remember watching my father as King Lear when I was six. I got quite blasé about wandering around backstage as a boy — which must have been very annoying for the actors.”...
...It was a mix of Edward Lear, Timothy Leary and Sesame Street. New songs tilted more towards the Timothy Leary side of things....
...At the book’s heart is Mikhail Gorbachev, a Lear-esque hero, who gave away what he should have retained to a west bent less on emancipation than exploitation....
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