King Lear review – Kathryn Hunter’s frail, fond old ruler almost unbearably affecting - The Guardian

Back in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disintegrating nation

If the current state of Britain were to reflect a Shakespeare play, many might hope for Richard II: weak and despised leader brutally deposed. But with Boris Johnson resisting that plot, it is King L… [+2561 chars]

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