Theatre Royal, Bath; Southwark Playhouse; Welsh Centre, LondonIt does make sense. It doesn't make enough nonsense. Lucy Bailey's production of King Lear, set mostly in the 1960s " cocktail dresses, jazz and BNP union flag faces " has at its centre a reasonable if smug man who is driven out of his mind when nearly everyone else behaves like brutes. David Haig's Lear would have been mad if he had stayed sane.This is fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on August 3, 2013