King Lear review " Geoffrey Rush owns the role but fails to sate craving for confrontation
Roslyn Packer Theatre, SydneyTackling a play driven by its protagonist's unreasonable expectations, Sydney Theatre Company's season-ending blockbuster doesn't quite deliver on the hype King Lear's unreasonable expectations drive Shakespeare's plot. After abdicating in order to "unburden'd crawl toward death" Lear expects the fawning and flattery that only power can procure to continue undiminished. It doesn't, and hi…