The Jacobi LEAR was great--riveting, grimly funny at times, conveying Shakespeare's most unrelieved tragedy, something so dark MACBETH seems like a dry run by comparison. Jacobi projected anger, sadness, bewilderment in just the right places. At the end of the production, birds twittered, as if to portend a new day after the worst had happened. I thought I could get my parakeets Actors Equity cards.
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The actor who played Edmund was good--scruffy, manic, with a genuine sense of grievance, somewhat impish--the performance went away from the kind of Marlovian, striving-evil paradigm towards a kind of imp of the perverse.....
Great interview with Jacobi
http://www.wqxr.org/articles/live-broadcasts/2011/jun/13/musical-take-shakespeares-em-tempestem-be-live-webcast-wqxrorg/
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