King Lear review " Yaël Farber's modern-dress take is shockingly vicious and supremely moving
Almeida Theatre, LondonThe set is a marvel, the performances are electric and the ending " with Lear raging and trembling in a hospital gown on the heath " is profoundly tragic Yaël Farber is known for the unrushed, ritualistic pace of her plays, having directed Shakespeare's most feverish tragedy, Macbeth, at two and a half hours, to some critical consternation. But Farber has found her natural home in King Lear …