Starring SRB in Sam Mendes’s production. Funnily enough, this
lacked the wow factor for me. Of course, everyone was excellent but this
modern-costume (black shirts and so on) production did not make me see Lear in
a particularly new light. The Ian McKellan version I saw at Stratford still is
the high-tide mark for me. As a detail, I also found the National’s stage quite
poor acoustically when the whole stage was opened up (as opposed to with a
backdrop towards the front).
Overall, the FT’s review seems spot on http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/13aa4864-84e0-11e3-8968-00144feab7de.html#axzz2rgAaaede
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