Barbican, LondonSet amid the Indigenous Australian community, this loose adaptation by Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre stirs Shakespeare's text into a rich linguistic stewKing Lear has lent itself to many cultural transpositions and re-imaginings, from Kurosawa's Ran to Jane Smiley's novel, A Thousand Acres. Shakespeare seldom suffers from such relocations and he doesn't in this very loose version of the play from Melb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM on June 26, 2016