SINGAPORE – At the end of a lively interview with Ramesh Meyyappan, the local theatremaker makes a request. Signing via an interpreter over the Zoom call, he says to refer to him as a deaf man ...

The play centres on an aged King Lear ... at the hands of Lear's madness. This culminates in dramatic fashion in the latter half of the second act, with Gloucester's eyes being gouged out, at the ...

The Saturday Symposium and Resident Ensemble Players are partnering together for King Lear. Join us for the day on April 19 and enjoy fascinating discussions, followed by a matinee performance of this ...

The week that Mahmoud Khalil became a political prisoner of the Trump regime, I was teaching Shakespeare’s King Lear ... s husband Cornwall to put out Gloucester’s eyes in a shocking paroxysm ...

Photo: Ros Kavanagh We don’t get many productions of Shakespeare in Dublin, so the Gate tackling King Lear is ... the live plucking-out of Gloucester’s (Stuart Graham) eyes is still a shocking ...

King Claudius exhibits a range of emotions ... Depravity reigns as Regan and her husband, the Duke of Cornwall, pluck Edmund’s father’s eyes from their sockets. Edmund realizes the gravity ...

Physical media collectors, take note. The Criterion Collection has announced six new Blu-ray releases coming in February 2025, including titles from some of today’s most beloved auteurs and one ...

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 ...

Do Lear’s daughters love him? What do they bring with them into the space when they gather along with the rest of their father’s court to witness the old king divesting his power and dividing ...

Johan Persson, Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh during rehearsals of King Lear with Hughie O’Donnell (who plays Cornwall), Jessica Revell (Cordelia/The Fool), and Ayla Wheatley (Attendant).

mine eyes, my heart to Thee / Thou setter-up and plucker-down of kings.” King Lear knew what it was to be set up and plucked down, and only in his reduced state did he taste the wonder of grace.