King Lear review " Geoffrey Rush owns role but fails to sate craving for fury
Roslyn Packer theatre, SydneyTackling a play driven by its protagonist's unreasonable expectations, Sydney Theatre Company's season-ending blockbuster doesn't quite deliver on the hypeIt is King Lear's unreasonable expectations that drive Shakespeare's plot. After abdicating in order to "unburden'd crawl toward death" Lear expects the fawning and flattery only power can procure to continue undiminished. It doesn't, a…