For some critics, the new production is the 'most satisfying' in ages, for others it suffered from director Sam Mendes's 'errors of judgment'. Here's how the critics weighed in' Read Michael Billington's four-star review of Simon Russell Beale in King LearTo one critic, he is "a shaven-headed despot". For another "a white-bearded king". Elsewhere "a bullet-headed Lear" and "an old tyrant". For the Daily Mail's Quenti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM on January 24, 2014