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Article: This great stage of fools ; Frances Barber isn't the only one missing Trevor Nunn's new production of 'King Lear' - he's also keeping the critics from seeing her understudy. It's a bloody tragedy, says Adrian Hamilton
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2007
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I yield to no one in my respect for Sir Trevor Nunn. Since his
early days at the Royal Shakespeare Company, through his stint at
the National to his more recent productions of musicals in the
commercial theatre, he has been one of the finest readers of a text,
and one of the most clear-headed providers of context, in the
theatre. His Nicholas Nickleby reopened a whole aspect of the stage
as storyteller, while his Three Sisters was the most affecting and
powerful version of Chekhov I have ever seen: at the end the
audience stayed silent for a full minute as the three women clutched
each other in hope born of desperation.
But with this King Lear, currently at Stratford-upon-Avon and
starring ...