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Review: `King Lear’

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Posted by Chad Jones on 23 Sep 07 - 1 Comment

Opened Sept. 22, 2007 at the Bruns Amphitheater, Orinda
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Cal Shakes ends season with royally pleasing Lear
three stars Moving, powerful
Perhaps the Fool said it best: “This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”
Saturday night was indeed cold as California Shakespeare Theater opened the [...]

Coming back to `Lear’

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Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Sep 07 - 0 Comments

Great actors wait for it — that defining moment when, as actors and as men, they are seasoned enough to tackle one of theater’s biggest mountains: the title role of Shakespeare’s King Lear.
Jeffrey DeMunn scaled that peak, but there was a slight hitch: He was only 26 years old playing an 80-plus-year-old man.
“We had lost [...]