Lear review – this matriarchal monarch’s tragedy is personal not political
Pitlochry Festival theatre Maureen Beattie leads a modern-dress version, which focuses on family dynamics rather than the decline of Shakespeare’s mighty ruler You know when you walk into a room then…
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