Shakespeare's Globe, London On a stripped-back stage, Nancy Meckler's production locates Lear in a world of deprivation, broken family relationships and bubbling anger'No disco-dancing yet," someone remarked in the interval. Given this theatre's recent record of treating Shakespeare as a bitter pill that needs to be extensively sugared, that was a relief. But, while Nancy Meckler's production is sober, chaste and dec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM on August 17, 2017