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Article: DOMESTIC DIVIDE AND RULE King Lear
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- October 15, 2006
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The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg is the kind of company
ambitious directors dream of creating. Its work has led Peter Brook
to describe it as 'the finest ensemble in Europe' - high praise
indeed. And it is an ensemble in the true sense of the word: a
performing company and theatre school rolled into one, where, working
for its august director, Lev Dodin, is regarded not as a job but as a
calling.
Dodin's production of King Lear, which has just completed a five-
day run at the Barbican (in Russian with surtitles), is the result of
three years of rehearsal. No excuses, then: it should not disappoint,
and, on the whole, it doesn't. The acting is flawless, the staging -
on a bare, simple ...
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