Word: lear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KING LEAR. In the finest performance of his career, Lee J. Cobb plays an almost unplayable role with consummate skill, infusing his portrayal of Shakespeare's king with an all-involving humanity. Cobb's Lear lacks something of the necessary majesty but is totally convincing in the sad scenes of madness. Director Gerald Freedman elicits beautifully modulated acting from the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. Philip Bosco as Kent stands out in a supporting cast that truly supports...
Endgame--Samuel Beckett's play, an absurdist's version of "King Lear" as some would have it. At TEMPO THEATRE, 130-34 Lincoln Street...
...KING LEAR. In the finest performance of his career. Lee J. Cobb plays an almost unplayable role with consummate skill, in fusing his portrayal of the foolish, suffering old man with an all-involving humanity. Director Gerald Freedman elicits beautifully modulated acting from the Lincoln Center Repertory Company...
Quite apart from Cobb's impressive achievement, the Lincoln Center King Lear is distinguished by a supporting cast that truly supports. A rarity in the past, the players' acting rapport is a tribute to the skill of Director Gerald Freedman. Philip Bosco's Kent is a beautifully modulated performance with a Gielgud-like delivery of the Shakespearean line. Rene Auberjonois as the Fool is a supple mime of wisdom and Stephen Elliott's Gloucester is a man of probity incarnate, woefully abused. Barbette Tweed's Cordelia is appropriately sweet and good; Patricia Elliott as Regan and Marilyn Lightstone as Goneril...
...Lion in Winter, King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) compares himself to an earlier British monarch. King Lear, he says, was also eroded by age, and by the duty of parceling his domain among ungrateful heirs. But there the re semblance ends. Henry is not Lear; and Henry's princes are not Lear's daughters...