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John Lithgow On The Single Greatest Challenge Of Playing King Lear

THEATRE Posted: June 27, 2014 12:10 am

“[It’s] modulation. For Lear, the first half of the play contains four titanic temper tantrums of near bipolar intensity, and the second half tips over into dementia, bottomless grief and (spoiler alert) death. In rehearsing these opening scenes, I need to constantly remind myself how far I still have to go, like a marathoner husbanding his resources.”

THEATRE Published: 06.25.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 06.25.14

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