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Article: `LEAR PROJECT' PUTS GENDER SPIN ON BARD.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- June 29, 1998
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Byline: MICHELLE F. SOLOMON Executive arts and entertainment editor
LENOX, Mass. -- Shakespeare & Company offered a small taste Wednesday night of something destined for greatness. ``The Lear Project,'' a re-gendrification of William Shakespeare's classic ``King Lear,'' played a brief, five-day limited run in its Stables Theatre and starred Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis as Queen Lear. The show was sold out by early June.
Seeing Dukakis close up in this intimate setting was surely a draw for fans who have drunk her in on the big screen as a movie mother in ``Moonstruck'' or on the small screen as the loopy Mrs. Madrigal in both versions of Armistaud ...