#2
Posted: 4/4/19 at 7:27pm
I'm seeing it tomorrow night. I've heard mixed things. I'm interested to see how the reviews go tonight.
#3
Posted: 4/4/19 at 7:42pm
I’d expect some of these reviews to be sharper than a serpent’s tooth.
Just remembering you've had an "and"
When you're back to "or"
Makes the "or" mean more than it did before
#4
Posted: 4/4/19 at 7:52pm
DC Theatre Scene is positive, for the most part.
"If Jackson’s performance turns this inventive but imperfect production into a must-see of the Broadway Spring season, it’s not just because of her impressive stamina and control. It’s also the appearance of physical fragility that helps make her Lear stand out."
#5
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:06pm
EW gives it an A: https://ew.com/theater-reviews/2019/04/04/glenda-jackson-king-lear-review/
#6
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:26pm
NY Daily News
"Glenda Jackson is extraordinary as Shakespeare’s mad monarch in uneven production of King Lear"
Updated On: 4/4/19 at 08:26 PM
#7
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:28pm
Los Angeles Times
"Glenda Jackson battles through a brazenly busy King Lear on Broadway"
Updated On: 4/4/19 at 08:28 PM
#9
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:34pm
am New York
2 1/2 stars
"Glenda Jackson takes on title role in mixed production"
#10
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:39pm
Variety
"Tiny but mighty, Glenda Jackson carries this Lear on her back."
#13
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:45pm
A study in contrasts: four stars from The Stage (paywalled) while Washington Post hates it
https://twitter.com/TheStage/status/1113954908607328257
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/glenda-jackson-as-king-lear-was-a-good-idea-why-is-everything-around-her-so-wrong/2019/04/04/ed786ad0-56db-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html?utm_term=.9646117c9e7b
#15
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:50pm
Hollywood Reporter
"Risky and uneven, but more often riveting than not."
#16
Posted: 4/4/19 at 8:53pm
Vulture
"But nearly all the pathos of this King Lear lies in the haphazard wreckage of the production that could have been. Blurry and superficial, the shape of power without its impact, the production that is is little more than Lear’s shadow."
#17
Posted: 4/4/19 at 10:06pm
Brantley loves Glenda, meh on the production. No critic's pick
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/theater/king-lear-review-glenda-jackson.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&action=click&contentCollection=arts®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
#18
Posted: 4/4/19 at 11:14pm
Having seen her performance last year and loving it, I feel like I should see this. But oof. I don't want to sit through it.
#19
Posted: 4/4/19 at 11:22pm
Fordham2015 said: "Brantley loves Glenda, meh on the production. No critic's pick"
Oh man... he is not MEH on the production. Aside from Glenda, that is a pan. He hated it.
#20
Posted: 4/5/19 at 1:05am
This sounds like the female version of Network. If you mainly want to see Glenda shine in an otherwise blah production, you will be rewarded.
#21
Posted: 4/5/19 at 9:06am
If you want your memories of Glenda from last year to go untarnished I absolutely recommend skipping this one.
It is such a disappointment.
#22
Posted: 4/5/19 at 9:06am
I gotta agree with NYT on this one. I thought this production was an absolute turkey.
#23
Posted: 4/5/19 at 9:06am
Brantley's comment on the score:
"this intermittent concert seems to be competing with, rather than underscoring, Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy."
This. THIS.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
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#24
Posted: 4/5/19 at 9:07am
Brantley hit the nail on the head with that review.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#25
Posted: 4/5/19 at 9:22am
For me the biggest problem with the production, which I saw about a week ago, was the total, utter, absolute absence of anything remotely resembling even the vaguest whisper of an emotional connection between Lear and Cordelia. There was nothing, zip zero zilch -- for the first time in my experience with this story I found myself imagining Cordelia on the throne of France, laughing laughing laughing and suggesting to her husband that there might be some nice real estate in her home country they could pick up cheap.
The emotional centers of the play were Kent and Gloucester. At least they were the night I saw it. Maybe this issue has been addressed since then.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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