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Article: Dukakis' Lear is a fine 'Project' in progress.
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- The Boston Herald
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- June 19, 1998
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"The Lear Project" at the Orpheum Theatre, Foxboro, through Sunday.
At this stage in its development, "The Lear Project" is a magnificent mess, but all the more fascinating for it. Seldom are viewers given the privilege to be allowed in on the unfurling of the creative process.
The premise of "The Lear Project," a work in progress co-produced by Shakespeare & Company and the Orpheum Theatre-Foxboro, is that Shakespeare's King Lear is Queen Lear, a powerful female monarch in her dotage.
The gender change shifts the central theme to an examination of the mother-daughter relationship, all the more loaded here because Olympia Dukakis, cast in the ...