The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.1368  Tuesday, 5 June 2001

From:           C. Gilmore <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Monday, 04 Jun 2001 16:38:48 -0400
Subject:        Review of Production of King Lear

Here is a link to a review of a production of King Lear in which
Cordelia is deaf and her signing translated by a fool:

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16792-2001Jun3.html

Here's a brief quote from the positive review:  "This "King Lear" seems
to have grown more reflective with the move from the Lansburgh, where it
ran in the fall of 1999. Indoors, Georgi Alexi-Meskhishvili's
coal-black, vaguely industrial set, with its oil drums on the floor and
huge metallic-looking semicircle above the stage, was unrelentingly grim
and oppressive. But this set wields less influence in the spacious,
tree-lined amphitheater, all but fading from view sometimes as
characters step to the edge of the stage and speak straight to the
heavens."

Christine Gilmore, MFA, PhD
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