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Jack Lear review " Shakespeare, shanties and a raging Barrie Rutter by Mark Fisher

Hull TruckDementia drama and Jacobean bloodbath sit uneasily alongside each other in a reworking of King Lear during the fishing industry's dying daysThey're a hard-bitten lot, the Lear sisters. Brought up as "men daughters" by a trawlerman father who'd sooner have had boys, they are sour, truculent and stony-faced. In Ben Benison's play, Nicola Sanderson, Sarah Naughton and Olivia Onyehara are a brutalised version o…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AM on January 28, 2019

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