King Lear Blogging
King Lear at the California Shakespeare Theater. Very well done.
There are, of course, the Berkeley moments: the announcement beforehand that there is a silver Prius in the parking lot with its interior lights on, and four men (including me) get up to check...
Were I Berkeley law professor John Yoo, I would never agree to take part in the production and come on stage to waterboard and then blind the Earl of Gloucester. And I would never agree to make Gloucester confess not just to conspiring with Cordelia and the French but also to being the twentieth highjacker...
"King Lear at the California Shakespeare Theater. Very well done."
I always thought the productions at Orinda kinda disappointing, maybe because of the miserable acoustics or because of going into hypothermic shock in the fourth and fifth acts after the sun went down and the temperature goes from pleasant Californian Indian summer evening to "Holy Crap It's Cold".
On Lear: Centralworks is doing a derivative of Lear next week at the lovely Berkeley City Club, which is heated.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan | October 08, 2007 at 11:09 AM