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King Lear " review by Michael Billington

Royal Lyceum, EdinburghI suspect Wu Hsing-kuo is the Taiwanese answer to Orson Welles. He has not only written and directed but also performs, in Mandarin and with the aid of nine musicians, this one-man version of Shakespeare's tragedy. And while it's not a practice I would wish to see widely imitated, there is no denying the actor's extraordinary virtuosic power.Strangely, it is as Lear himself that I find him leas…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:00pm on August 14, 2011

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