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PlayMakers’ tawdry ‘Lear’ comes up short
BY NICK PARKER
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
In the school of Shakespearian
tragedy, “King Lear” might not be
the most famous, taking a backseat
to the bourgeoisie blockbusters
“Macbeth” and “Hamlet,” but it’s by
far the most tragic.
Fathers banish their children,
power-hungry villains hunt their
siblings, devilish adulterers create
dark alliances and when it is all
said and done, the stage is littered
with corpses.
It’s a recipe for success.
But Play Makers Repertory
Company’s latest production of the
royal blood bath just can’t keep up
with the script.
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THEATER EVIEW
KING LEAR
PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY
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SATURDAY, JAN. 17
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Dry delivery, a dreary set, drab
costumes and a generally heartless
feel make PlayMakers’ “King Lear”
more draining than depressing,
more monotonous than moving.
It seems as if director Mark
Wing-Davey tried to drum up the
tumultuous tragedy in a different
light but just missed the mark. It
was a pioneering step but in a
direction that would have been
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None of the individual parts was
especially poor save for the set
design, which was one rusty gear
short of a Dickensian assembly line
—but all together the production
added up to much less than the
sum of its parts.
Michael Winters’ Lear started
strong, with raw power and self
consumed stubbornness, but he
wilted in the final act after realiz
ing the depth of his loss.
The dark daughters, Gonerill
(Rebecca Wisocky) and Regan
(Carolyn Baeumler), were both
cruel and dangerous but fell short
on the finer points. Regan’s drunk
en swagger was more silly than
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telling, and Gonerill’s cold-hearted
ness made her late-blooming love
affair an unbelievable sex shocker.
Charles Parnell’s underhanded
Edmond —with sinister jealousy
and bastardly acceptance was
the best of the bunch.
His performance, however, was
lost in the uninteresting industrial
set and strange, shocker scenes. To
try and highlight the passion and
decadence just under the surface
of “King Lear,” Wing-Davey spiced
up the show with sex and nudity.
But when Parnell and Wisocky
start humping in a rusty elevator
box over an enraged and drunken
Baeumler, it comes off as crass and
even a little comic.
Top that off with three naked
men posing under a PCP pipe
shower at different times, thank
goodness —and it seems like
Wing-Davey was digging to keep
the audience awake.
It isn’t that PlayMakers’ “King
Lear” was bad, it’s just that there’s
so much more to work with. Next
time less penis, more emotion.
Contact theA&E Editor
at artsdesk@unc.edu.
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