As he approaches his 89th birthday, Richard Wilson plays King Lear for the first time in his life. Richard will be the oldest-ever British actor to take on the role. This is Shakespeare's powerful ...

Harris, Michael Milligan, Patrick Page and Shirine Babb in “King Lear,” directed by Simon ... Craig Wallace’s noble Gloucester. It happens gruesomely in front of us, in the play’s most ...

King Lear, Timon of Athens ... is mirrored by that of the great King’s lesser counterpart, his servant Gloucester — the lusts of the heart in Gloucester taking the place of the pride of ...

Dennis Raveneau as the title character, left, and Ed Woodall as Gloucester rehearse Fair Assembly's production of "King Lear."(Emily Ernst) This joy appears when Gloucester and Lear magically run ...

Gloucester's blind credulity in the face of Edmund's plotting matches Lear's blind arrogance, and leads as surely to destruction. Any production of King Lear rises and falls on the performance of ...