Article: Dukakis thunders through `Lear Project'

THE LEAR PROJECT Performance in two acts based on "King Lear" by William Shakespeare Directed by Dennis Krausnick. Set and costumes, John Pennoyer. Lighting, Michael Giannitti. Produced by Shakespeare & Company and Orpheum Theatre Foxborough At: Orpheum Theatre Foxborough through Sunday. At Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, June 23- 28

FOXBOROUGH -- Olympia Dukakis is not the first woman to play King or Queen Lear and she's not the first Lear to be upstaged by the Fool. Shakespeare & Company's exploration into gender bending is unique on one other front, though. It's the first time I rooted for Regan and Goneril against Lear and Cordelia.

"The Lear Project" is not the easily dismissible ...

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