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, The Shed, to Dec. 15 ...

Harris, Michael Milligan, Patrick Page and Shirine Babb in “King Lear,” directed by Simon Godwin ... plucks out the eyes of Edmund’s father, Craig Wallace’s noble Gloucester.

The shame for Lear, because he’s been a king and he’s been the center of ... “Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so that heaven’s vault should crack,” Lear says, moments before ...

Branagh’s hotly anticipated stab at King Lear is ... both the solar eclipse and a divine omniscient eye gazing down from the cosmos. Lear’s madness could garner an almost Lovecraftian feel ...

That all-seeing space-eye above Branagh’s Neolithic England ... t lack for petty machinations and raving leaders. And “King Lear” doesn’t lack for criticisms of power — those who seek ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

Apparently a doddering old king, Lear is an attractive figure to pin allegories ... Regan’s husband Cornwall to put out Gloucester’s eyes in a shocking paroxysm of onstage violence.

“King Lear” is about lots of things—power ... Gloucester has been tortured, had his eyes gouged out, but he is finally able to see that Edmund lied. “I am worse than e’er I was ...

At two hours with no intermission, this stunning Branagh-helmed and -starring production is, in the best possible way, “King Lear’s” greatest hits. Senior Editor and Writer You will not be ...