Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly ... Edgar is forced into hiding and disguises himself as a poor beggar. After learning of the King's troubles, Gloucester ...

Goneril talks to King ... poor beggar. After learning of the King's troubles, Gloucester sets out to help him but is found for treason and is blinded. His son, Edgar leads him to safety where King ...

A turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons ... one wonders yet again at Shakespeare’s uncanny ability to create dramas for the contemporary zeitgeist, their universal truths ...

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