Review: King Lear, at Wyndham's Theatre | Westminster Extra
Kenneth Branagh stars in two-hour production that's big on spectacle
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Kenneth Branagh stars in two-hour production that's big on spectacle
Kenneth Branagh stars in two-hour production that's big on spectacle
PATRICK MARMION: Branagh's Lear appears to be trapped in his own private bubble. Exhibiting neither frailty nor vulnerability, he robs us of any basis for sympathy.
It’s the role that so many great Shakespearean actors hope to live up to, but Branagh’s West End performance of an ageing leader in decline feels like a curio rather than a complete reading
At two hours with no interval, the actor-director’s production hurtles past at such speed that the depths of the play are too rarely realised