Glenda Jackson returns to the stage as an authoritative Lear, gender irrelevantThe signs were there early in Glenda Jackson's career that she would one day have what it takes to "ascend the Everest" (as the cliché has it) of Lear. So powerful was her performance as Ophelia in Peter Hall's production of Hamlet in 1965 there was talk afterwards of her being cast as the prince himself. Two years later she was another d…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:02AM on November 5, 2016