Sydney Theatre Company's production of King Lear is high on drama, playing up the bawdy and the grotesque on a starkly minimalist stage, painted black in the first half only to become surreally white in the second. Geoffrey Rush as Lear leads the show with a beautifully controlled performance. Though other actors don't stand out, they offer enough support to Rush's show stealer act. The music hall routines with the hat, the reinforced emphasis on the figure of the tramp and other vaudeville stuff coming from the fool (played by a female actor) are replete with a Beckettian Lear, historically mediated by Jan Kott's interpretation and Peter Brook's famous 1962 production.
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