Most actors play King Lear as an imperial monarch, the better to contrast with the character’s subsequent descent into madness. But in the new production of the play at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, veteran British actor Derek Jacobi (of I, Claudius fame) takes a different approach.   His Lear is a loving father in desperate need of his children’s tribute. When it’s denied him by his youngest…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 05:40AM on May 10, 2011