King Lear, The Grange review - friendship in adversity
People, not politics, at the heart of a timeless tragedy Much has been made of the raison d'etre for this King Lear as the slowly gestated, Covid-delayed brainchild of the director Keith Warner, assembling a company of acting singers who have made their names on the opera stage. How this played out on the first night, in the first half of a fairly full text, was a reluctance to hold the stage on the part of everyone …