The 43-year-old Ukrainian actress took to the stage wearing a black leather jacket and with a moustache painted on her face. Ruslana ... Shakespeare’s King Lear when suddenly our men were ...
Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.
Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...
Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in King Lear, his study of political vacuums and family dynamics. The ageing King ...