King Lear, Shakespeare's Globe - Nancy Meckler's Globe debut is unusually subdued by Alexandra.coghlan

A tragedy so quiet it proves almost inaudible at timesEvery play is a Brexit play. This much we have learnt in the year since the referendum. But in Nancy Meckler's hands the Globe's new King Lear becomes the Brexit play " an unpicking of intergenerational responsibility and difference, of philosophies of power and governance, tackling above all that sticky question of what the old really owe the young.

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