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Vaclav Havel insists that his first play in 20 years, which opened to enthusiastic reviews at a small experimental theater in downtown Prague on May 22, is not autobiographical. It's true that the play, entitled Leaving, and has echoes of Shakespeare's King Lear, tells the story of a top official leaving office -as former President Havel did in 2003. Some of its characters seem easily recognizable to those familiar with Czech politics. But Havel is not being disingenuous: The lead character, an aging politician named Vilem Rieger, is far too humorless to represent the former dissident who once...
...from Jonathan Swift and reminiscing about old political battles, Foot seemed like a ghost from the past, "a kind of walking obituary for the Labor Party," as Guardian Columnist Peter Jenkins put it. In the dwindling days of the campaign, journalists began comparing Foot to another doomed figure, King Lear...
...Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” Dave Eggers. Big waves of emotion, like “King Lear...
...showing his mother saw what appeared to be a bearded homeless man crying in the theatre. “After the show ended, she realized it was Ian McKellen,” said Reitan. The actor, who is also gay, was in town playing “King Lear,” hence the beard. “I think someone like Ian McKellen gets it on a level that other people just can’t,” said Reitan. “He’s been through it. He’s experienced...
...part of the storyteller's art to reveal a single defining moment in a character's life, the inflection point at which the reader gains some insight into what makes the person tick. Huck escapes from his father and sets off down the river. Lear banishes Cordelia. Bogart reaches into his jacket pocket and gives Bergman the papers...