" The Redstone saga, Coffee adds, "sounds like the plot of King Lear, brought up to date.
In 1604, when he was writing King Lear, the 40-year-old playwright grew worried about his eventual retirement.
There is also a one-man King Lear at the Lyceum and Philip Glass's debut at the Playhouse.
In one scene, Murdoch, mishearing, thinks that one of his executives has just compared him to King Lear.
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Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus.
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If you look at it in acting terms I've been on Eastenders all my life and now I'm King Lear.
Some raved over his treatment of King Lear in 1997, hailing it as an innovative mix of dramatic forms and language.
After playing Malvolio, Briers took on the acting challenge of King Lear, followed by the title role in Uncle Vanya and Menenius in Coriolanus.
The Donmar's current production of King Lear, starring Sir Derek Jacobi, will transfer to New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music in April.
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Other winners included Sir Derek Jacobi, who won best best performance in a play for the Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear.
Unlike King Lear who ended up in tatters, raving on the beach, Murdoch can walk away as a great operator undone by his grubby news hounds.
Petherbridge has been in King Lear before, as the Fool in New York in 1974 and as the King of France to Olivier's monarch for a TV version in 1984.
The 47-year-old's musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is currently in previews and he is scheduled to follow it with a staging of King Lear at the National Theatre.
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.
Built 200 yards from the site of the original theatre where many of Shakespeare's most famous plays made their debut, including Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth, the Globe is putting on four of the Bard's plays this year in celebration of the anniversary.
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.
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.
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).
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).
Nominees for best actor in a miniseries or made-for-TV movie were Sam Shepard for his role as author Dashiell Hammett in "Dash and Lilly, " Jack Lemmon for "Inherit the Wind" (Showtime), Ian Holm for "King Lear" on PBS, Don Cheadle for "A Lesson Before Dying" (HBO) and Stanley Tucci for "Winchell" (HBO).
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