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KINGS AND KINGMAKERS.(Theater review)
Kevin Kline is a recessive star, in the Fredric March mode, but not recessive to the point of becoming knotted up in his own acting, thank God. Like Robert Downey, Jr., he has an intelligence and a love of the game that often surpass the leaden productions in which he finds himself; he is an ironist, but one with heart. Even when he plays a big, showy character, such as his Tony Award-winning version of the swashbuckling Pirate King in the Public Theatre's 1980 revival of "The Pirates of Penzance," Kline maintains a certain skepticism; in that role, with his perpetually arched eyebrows a counterpoint to his thigh-high boots and bandanna, he repeatedly let us know that we ...
- King Lear And The Great Stage of Fools.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) March 15, 2004 700+ words
...such as it is--isn't found in Lear's "ruin'd piece of nature" as a...the nonexistent cliff, it's in the Fool's worldly cynicism, and it's in Lear's own tragic dawning as the Fool within himself comes to see life as grotesquely...
- SSC'S LEAR IS A SERIOUS OLD FOOL.(Life and Arts)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Adcock, Joe January 24, 2004 700+ words
...gatherings. Kurt Beattie, who plays Lear in the Seattle Shakespeare Company...unsparing in his personification of "no fool like an old fool." Beattie does nothing...Langs adds an intriguing element to Lear's character. The king's jester...
- Tragedies of William Shakespeare and Sonnets: King Lear: Act 3
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Shakespeare, William January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Gentleman also tells Kent that Lear is accompanied only by the Fool, who is trying to keep his...some sardonic remarks by the Fool, Lear says that Nature, even at...seem puny by comparison. As Lear raves, the Fool keeps trying to comfort him...
- King Lear: Act I, Scene V
- Reference information from: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare, William January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool.} KING LEAR: Go you before to Gloucester...middle on's face? 20 KING LEAR: No. Fool: Why, to keep one's eyes...oyster makes his shell? KING LEAR: No. Fool: Nor I neither; but I can tell...
- Performance and text: King Lear.(Articles)
- Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Foakes, R.A. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...For instance, at the center of King Lear is the storm scene in which the old...Identifying with this poor naked wretch, Lear cries, "Off, off you lendings...twentieth century to have Kent and the Fool prevent Lear from disrobing. Shakespeare's intentions...
- Ultimate acts: 'Hamlet' and 'King Lear' offer the greatest acting roles in all...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 15, 2006 700+ words
...few quick thoughts on these characters by those who are playing them. "KING LEAR" Howard Witt as the Fool (he accompanies Lear on his downward spiral): "The Fool I'm playing will not be the traditional Fool. He's usually an acrobat...
- King Lear: Act III, Scene II
- Reference information from: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare, William January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Enter KING LEAR and Fool.} KING LEAR: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage...here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool. KING LEAR: Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain...
- King Lear.(Theater review)
- Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin Collins, Michael J. December 22, 2008 700+ words
...Fights by Renny Krupinski. With David Calder (King Lear), Sally Bretton (Goneril), Fraser James (Duke...Jodie McNee (Cordelia), Danny Lee Wynter (Lear's Fool), Kevork Malikyan (Lear's Knight), Paul Copley (Earl of Kent), Joseph...
