| re: Sam Gold says he "fought and fought" with Glenda Jackson on "Lear." (Podcast) | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 10:17 am EST 12/25/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Sam Gold says he "fought and fought" with Glenda Jackson on "Lear." (Podcast) - Donald418 08:01 am EST 12/25/24 | |
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| It was a production pulled various ways by the variously starry actors. There was little grandeur to the style of performance, though many had Shakespearean credentials. The notion of doubling Cordelia and the Fool didn’t pay off in any startling, motivated way. I think Pedro Pascal played Edmund, but his magnetism didn’t carry across the footlights. There was a hearing impaired actor playjng a key role, and, as I remember, we sometimes had to wait for his lines to be repeated by his in-scene interpreter, which detracted. There was no world of the play. We were just on a somewhst bare stage with some very glister-y, high-fashion costumes. It seemed a mistake. Jackson had come roaring out of retirement in s much-acclaimed production of Lear in England. But they didn’t move that production here. They started from scratch. Bad idea. Lear has very strong subplots; it doesn’t stsnd or fall by its protagonist’s performance. So it needs a good overall ensemble. She must’ve been upset at the sabotage of her Lear. (Though she gave a superstar performance, dripping with hubris and agony; how cd she not being who she is.) At least she was able to give us a near-perfect THREE TALL WOMEN, a more controllable play, with a good ensemble. |
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