King Lear " review
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsA good Lear is someone who can get through three hours of howling and humiliation without genuinely going mad. A great one is someone alive to textual hints and suggestions one may not have noticed before. The wonder of Tim Pigott-Smith's king lies not in the fact that he loses his mind, but in the ordure he finds floating in his unconscious.He begins the evening as a highly strung…