When the director re-opened a dilapidated Parisian theatre with an international Shakespeare production, the applause shook the buildingKing Lear is the supreme achievement of the world's theatre: you can find everything in that play. I'd always written off Timon of Athens as minor Shakespeare " although I'd no longer use that word for any of his plays. For me, it was just a first sketch of Lear, with its portrait of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AM on May 16, 2016