Wyndham's; Harold Pinter; Battersea Arts Centre, LondonKenneth Branagh savours Lear's words rather too much; Kristin Scott Thomas and co are left high and dry in Cornwall; but at BAC, a beatbox Pied Piper you would follow anywhere… Howl. Kenneth Branagh's rapid, over-elocuted King Lear has a shaggy vigour but misses the scope, the depth and " what is surely the play's defining attribute " the terrifying dislocation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM on November 5, 2023