King Lear, Almeida Theatre, London
If Hamlet is the supreme test of the younger actor, Jonathan Pryce passed it with flying colours in 1980 at the Royal Court where, in a startling double, his febrile Prince hawked up the speeches of the Ghost in fits of agonising psychic possession. There is nothing quite so radically daring in his his approach to King Lear, the equivalent challenge for veterans which, at the age of 65, he is now taking on.
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