from the torrential storm that washes away the last of Lear’s sanity to the grisly horror of Regan egging on her husband, the Duke of Cornwall (Tim Treloar), to pluck out Gloucester’s eyes ...

Senior Editor and Writer You will not be able to keep your eyes off the eye. Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production of King Lear (Griffin Theater ...

is unmatched in his other great tragedies: “Macbeth” features the slaughter of Macduff’s children, and in “Lear,” Gloucester’s eyes are gouged out onstage by Cornwall. A plague on ...

The weather gods blessed us Friday night as King Lear took the stage ... suffers mightily for his fidelity to Lear. Cornwall gouges out his eye with (would you believe?) a cordless power drill!

It all begins with aged King Lear ... off the Duke of Cornwall (Cody Swanson), the power-hungry husband of Regan, so Cornwall draws his sword and pokes out Gloucester's eye.

The tragedy of King Lear is reduced to a series of unfortunate events. Would that the vitality and dissonance aimed for in the fire-engine-red set and jet-black costumes (which tire the eyes ...

William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is surprisingly well placed in ... He is reduced to a homeless wanderer as Regan's husband, Cornwall, and Gloucester's bastard son, Edmund, plot how to take ...