And it's interesting, you talked about in your book an exercise that you did in school where you were asked to go through - what was it - King Lear and one other play to look for all of the references to blindness and eyes.

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The world premiere theatre performance of Black Diggers presents the touching, never-before-told stories of 1, 000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in WWI, while The Shadow King is a poignant and thought-provoking Indigenous re-working of King Lear, performed through a mix of live rock music using both English and Kriol (an Indigenous Australian dialect).

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There is also a one-man King Lear at the Lyceum and Philip Glass's debut at the Playhouse.

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In 1604, when he was writing King Lear, the 40-year-old playwright grew worried about his eventual retirement.

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But it wasn't to Keegan, who launched himself into this televised rant, before going all King Lear and seeing a 12-point lead crumble and run through his fingers like dust.

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After Dersu Uzala was Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior), winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1980, and Ran (Chaos, 1985), an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear which won him an Academy Award nomination for best director - a feat almost unheard of for a foreign-language film.

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You'll recall from high school or college how Shakespeare frequently pushes the limits of comedy and tragedy, splicing farce into moments of calamity (the fool in King Lear, the clowns in Hamlet) and pulling back suddenly from near-fatal disaster in comedies (The Merchant of Venice, A Winter's Tale).

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