Miverva, ChichesterAlongside SinĂ©ad Cusack, Dervla Kirwan and Phil Daniels, McKellen is deftly authoritative as Lear in a production full of fine performances and clever touchesSome of the most striking recent insights into King Lear come in a novel. Edward St Aubyn's Dunbar, in which the Fool is a telly comedian and the wheel of fortune becomes the casino of money markets, features a world of "wild plasticity". Hal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM on October 8, 2017