King Lear review " newly and bitingly prophetic by Susannah Clapp

Bristol Old Vic'Albion comes to great confusion' as Timothy West's thoughtful Lear presides over a nation dividedA map of the British Isles cracks into pieces. In front of it two tribes jostle for supremacy: the old and the young. In Tom Morris's staging, King Lear looks newly and bitingly prophetic. Here is Shakespeare seeing hostility between parents and children turning into generations of political conflict. Here…

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