Word: lear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles B. Cochran production of King Lear...
Williams' mythical Lear came just in time to steam London up for a real Lear. Fortnight ago John Gielgud-who played Hamlet on Broadway in 1936-opened in Lear at London's historic, wrong-side-of-the-Thames Old Vic. The stanch Old Vicars-highbrows, artists, workingmen, eccentrics-in tweeds and business suits, did not make for a glittering first night. But because Gielgud was fighting for art in wartime, and because he played the mad, storm-swept, kingly old man with understanding, London's critics voted Lear the most important theatrical event since the war began...