(photo credit: Guntar Kravis)
Lear-ing at the Experience
Text falls by the wayside
by Jason Booker
Director Philip McKee’s Lear, offers a modern take that contemporizes and creates a visceral experience of the Shakespeare play using only four actresses. McKee employs a phenomenal bag of tricks here: one can rarely be bored by the text because so little of it is used and the words themselves are not the focus.
