'King Lear" is no picnic: The play's world is one where "machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves," as Lear's confidant, the Earl of Gloucester, puts it. All of those are deployed with bleak gusto in David Farr's grimly captivating production...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:58AM on July 19, 2011