King Lear, RSC, Barbican
Antony Sher runs the full delivery gamut in Gregory Doran's distinguished production At the conclusion of a year in which Britishness has come so resoundingly to the fore of the national debate " and with a play that at the time of its writing, 1605-6, was engaging with that concept no less urgently " the first impression made by Gregory Doran's King Lear is how removed it looks from any traditional sense of wha…