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November 05, 2009

Characters rise above a costume drama of no fixed dress

King Lear
by William Shakespeare
State Theatre Company of South Australia
Dunstan Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre.
November 5. Tickets $45 – $60. Bookings BASS 131 246
Until November 21.

It is as if Shakespeare’s King Lear is made of huge tectonic plates called power, loyalty and love and, when the king declares his darker purpose to divide the kingdom, they begin to grind against one another like the crack of doom. Lear is a huge, bleak, primeval play, set in …

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