| re: Sam Gold says he "fought and fought" with Glenda Jackson on "Lear." (Podcast) | |
| Posted by: andPeggy 10:21 am EST 12/25/24 | |
| In reply to: Sam Gold says he "fought and fought" with Glenda Jackson on "Lear." (Podcast) - kieran 03:15 am EST 12/25/24 | |
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| Ben Brantley's original review starts.... Could we please have a little quiet? There’s a great actress onstage at the Cort Theater, and I’d like to hear what she’s saying. That was the way I felt during much of Sam Gold’s production of “King Lear,” which opened on Thursday night with the extraordinary Glenda Jackson in the title role. It should surprise no one that Ms. Jackson is delivering a powerful and deeply perceptive performance as the most royally demented of Shakespeare’s monarchs. But much of what surrounds her in this glittery, haphazard production seems to be working overtime to divert attention from that performance. That includes a perfectly lovely string quartet — playing original music by Philip Glass, no less — that under other circumstances I would have enjoyed listening to. Here, though, this intermittent concert seems to be competing with, rather than underscoring, Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy. The same might be said of Miriam Buether’s blindingly gold set (lighted to sear the eyes by Jane Cox), which blazes with nouveau riche vulgarity. |
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