King Lear
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Thursday, 29 January 2009 -
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Tuesday - Saturday: 19:30 - 22:00
Sunday: 15:00 - 17:00
Tuesday - Saturday: 19:30 - 22:00
Sunday: 15:00 - 17:00
The Young Vic, 66 The Cut, Southbank, SE1 8LZ
How Much:
£23.00 (Tickets)
, £18.00 (Concessions)
, £10.00 (NUS)
Read Jimmy's review of this show
Man-of-the-moment and 'the future of Shakespeare' Rupert Goold directs a brutal King Lear.
This show has a lot of elements to appeal to the youth demographic. Pete Postlethwaite (Lethal Weapon 2, The Usual Suspects) graduates from playing terrifying henchmen to bring the mad King to life as a tragic industrialist. The setting is the dawn of the Thatcher era, giving the show a retro backdrop and an excuse for the cast to wear leather trenchcoats and strut around like greedy gangsters.
Not only that, it's directed at cracking pace and whips through this enthralling, exhausting descent from glory to madness in around three hours.
Man-of-the-moment and 'the future of Shakespeare' Rupert Goold directs a brutal King Lear.
This show has a lot of elements to appeal to the youth demographic. Pete Postlethwaite (Lethal Weapon 2, The Usual Suspects) graduates from playing terrifying henchmen to bring the mad King to life as a tragic industrialist. The setting is the dawn of the Thatcher era, giving the show a retro backdrop and an excuse for the cast to wear leather trenchcoats and strut around like greedy gangsters.
Not only that, it's directed at cracking pace and whips through this enthralling, exhausting descent from glory to madness in around three hours.
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