Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

Once Gloucester sees the letter, he writes Edgar off as a villain. Feeling betrayed, Edgar assumes a new identity as a beggar and goes no-contact with his family. In the second plot, King Lear ...

Gloucester sets out to help him but is found for treason and is blinded. His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King Lear is also hiding. The English army defeats the French army led by Cordelia ...

The first half of the show, before intermission, was highly entertaining. We were introduced to King Lear (Tommy Liddy) and his three daughters, the traitorous duo Regan (Isabel Olesinski) and Goneril ...

Kenneth Branagh’s “King Lear,” which opened Thursday night ... Kent heaps upon villainous servant Oswald in front of Gloucester’s castle. In the trimmed version now running at The Shed ...