Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown ... John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great ...

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 plot involves Gloucester and his two sons ... intentionally or not, is tragic. “King Lear” ends with almost all the characters dying, but because this is a play – a fiction, a fantasy – they ...

King Lear has been through ... to find shows about King Lear (Everyone Is King Lear in His Own Home, The Cordelia Dream, Testament) than a production of the play itself . Director Selina Cartmell ...