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Article: KING LEAR
- Article from:
- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- March 10, 2004
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Keeping even Plummer un-plummy, Jonathan Miller makes Shakespeare make sense
KING LEAR By William Shakespeare Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65th Street 212.239.6200
LEAR AS DAYLIGHT
Among the audiences that sit reverentially through Lincoln Center Theater's newly imported Stratford Festival production of King Lear, there are probably at least a few of the halfhearted Shakespeareans who streamed toward the exits at BAM last fall during Richard Maxwell's non-staging of Henry IV, Part One. Reassured by the glossier credentials on display at the Beaumont, they probably haven't been struck by the thought that Maxwell's approach-something for which, I grant, he and his actors were painfully ...
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