The Shadow King review " Lear gambols to his fate in the desert
Barbican, LondonSet amid the Indigenous Australian community, this loose adaptation by Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre stirs Shakespeare's text into a rich linguistic stewKing Lear has lent itself to many cultural transpositions and re-imaginings, from Kurosawa's Ran to Jane Smiley's novel, A Thousand Acres. Shakespeare seldom suffers from such relocations and he doesn't in this very loose version of the play from Melb…
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