Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shakespeare, as usual, offers the final triumphant words of common sense in unshakable terms (though spoken by a villain, Edmund, in King Lear...
...company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together on an austere, black-and-white film of King Lear. On Sunday night alone, Hall estimates, the TV audience for A Midsummer Night's Dream will be large enough to fill the 1,426-seat playhouse at Stratford for 30 years...
...KING LEAR is the best work that the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater Las ever offered. Lee J. Cobb, aided by a supporting cast that truly supports, gives the best performance of his career in the title role...
...KING LEAR. Lee J. Cobb gives the best performance of his career in this revival by the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. Cobb's portrayal of the blind, incurably foolish Lear has an all-involving humanity from which an audience cannot withhold some of its deepest emotions...
...KING LEAR. Lee J. Cobb gives the finest performance of his career in this revival by the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. His portrayal of the blind, incurably foolish Lear has an all-involving humanity from which an audience cannot withhold some of its deepest emotions...