 | King Lear |  |
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!" Act I, scene iv
Written: 1605
BBC ; 1997 (Film)
Starring :
Reviewed on : 2001-09-30 14:15:55 | Joining Ian Holm (1931-) in Lear are Barbara Flynn, Amanda Redman, Victoria Hamilton, Paul Rhys, David Burke and Finbar Lynch as Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, Edgar, Kent and Edmund. With such a cast, could this have been anything but a triumph? Directed by Richard Eyre for the National Theatre Company and aired on public broadcasting in the States, the staging was extremely minimalist and bizarre. I liked it, of course. It was pleasant seeing Rhys as something other than a villain, Lynch was extremely smarmy as Edmund (appropriately enough), Flynn and Redman played well off each other -- but the show belonged to Holm. Played with a vitality and energy that bely his years, Holm's Lear is extremely tormented by circumstance. Sanity becomes a tangible item in Holm's interpretation.
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Sir John Gilbert, R.A.,
Lear and the Fool
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