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King Lear at TFANA

Posted by:	stan 08:20 pm EDT 03/30/14

Michael Pennington is superb and is the principal reason for going. Except for Langella, I think I've seen them all going back to Olivier. Also Edgar was very good (Edmund was OK), I liked Rachel Pickup's Goneril (and also liked her in Dancing at Lughnasa), Gloucester and Regan were good, Kent was very good. The Fool was poor and I couldn't understand poor Cordelia (there's a slight speech problem, which didn't bother me when I saw Englert in Midsummer earlier this season, but made her incomprehensible in the second act today). A nice, moving, heart-felt production.

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