What If Lear's Story Were Your Story?: For audiences in Croatia, the play strikes a chord of stark reality. (Postmark Croatia).(Kralj Lear) (theater review)
American Theatre, December, 2001 by Mirrione, Jim
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For many audiences, a production of King Lear remains mostly an aesthetic experience. But during a remarkable environmentally specific performance of the play last summer, audience members squirmed as Gloucester said: "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father." The actor speaking these lines--and the rest of the cast--were comprised of nationalities that were once bitter enemies.
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The result, for spectators and players alike, was an awareness that Lear's ...
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