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Byline: Review By Paul Denison The Register-Guard
ASHLAND - Although "King Lear" is a tragedy in which three women play key roles, the strength of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's new production comes from three men: the playwright, director James Edmondson and actor Kenneth Albers.
Shakepeare did his bit 400 years ago, when he wrote this timeless tragedy about a royal family having its ups and downs: love, trust, greed, bitterness, sibling rivalry, treachery, compassion, cruelty, lunacy, suicide, murder. Edmondson has played Lear himself and has appeared in three other festival productions of this play. Albers is in the title role for the first time.
That their collaboration has been fruitful is evident in the very first scene. Standing astride a map of his kingdom, which he is about to parcel out to his three daughters, using a sword as a pointer, Lear momentarily seems confused, as if he has forgotten which end of the map is which.
Then he...
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