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

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BBC Radio 4 has announced a host of exciting new commissions coming soon to Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. This includes The Fever, a 90-minute radio adaptation of the critically acclaimed play by Wallace Sh ...

To oblige an eager reporter, he invented a story about the holiday’s origin. He didn’t realize it would turn out to be his ...

The Bristol Shakespeare Society craft a frighteningly powerful and visually immersive performance of King Lear, serving a ...

Apparently a doddering old king, Lear is an attractive figure to pin allegories ... this year is the way Lear is less a villain than a fool (as his own Fool tries to remind him).

Shakespeare fans can also look forward to a new adaptation of King Lear starring Richard Wilson ... Trevor Fox as the Fool and Jos Vantyler as Edgar, with further casting to be announced.

Shakespeare’s world-weary wags spoke truth to King Lear and other royals, while the heyoka, the holy fool of many Sioux tribes, inverted day-to-day logic to provoke healing laughter. The ...