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Theatre Review: King Lear shakes off old cares but new ones follow close Review of King Lear at Kentucky Repertory Theatre. Next earlier review: Robert Stone review of Amadeus at KRT Review by Robert Stone King Lear opened at Kentucky Repertory Theatre Friday, November 21, with Warren Hammack in the title role. Hammack, artistic/producing director of Horse Cave Theatre now KRT, was in Horse Cave from 1977 until his retirement in 2002. It would be easy to apply Lear's lines to him: "'tis our fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age, conferring them on younger strengths." But he has continued acting and his Lear is stunning. King Lear is a study of the difficulty of giving up great power while trying to maintain a lesser power position. Only respect can allow a person to maintain a lesser role. Lear begins by requesting declarations of love and the gets them from his two older daughters. Later we see that their responses were hollow. His youngest daughter says she only loves him in the ways that respect requires. Lear disinherits Cordelia for her lack of "loving" words. On Goneril and Regan he puts the condition that he will keep a hundred servants and that they will host him and his retinue month by month in rotation. The two older sisters know that their father has always loved Cordelia most and they note this as the first sign of his infirmity. They easily begin to see other signs of poor judgment. "He hath ever but slenderly known himself," says Regan. Two masters in the same house being impossible, differences between Lear's servants and his daughter's servants are bound to occur and do. His daughters describe them as "riots" and decide that Lear's hundred servants are too many. Fifty will do. Later twenty five. Later ten or five or one. And finally, why any? The second plot line is that of the Earl of Gloucester and his sons. Edgar is the heir. Edmund, born a little too soon according to the legalities, is the younger son scheming to gain all. He says, "the younger rises when the old doth fall." Dylan Myers gives us an Edgar who is open and eager to do what is right. He becomes his father's guide when the father is no longer able to see to lead. He subdues his evil brother but even then his desire is to maintain the integrity of the state within which he has been born and has lived. Shawn Knight is both fool and wise, fool in name but wise in perceiving the true motivations of those around him. Lear says "I am a very foolish fond old man." Lear is lucky to have a fool who is fond of him and holds up a looking-glass in which Lear begins to see the results of his own folly when he divided his kingdom. Fred Willecke, our Earl of Glouchester, finds himself in the most difficult situations. He must persuade us of his affection for both sons, of his devotion to King Lear, of his loss of sight, of his blindness, of his falling over a cliff which is not there. All this he does well. Robert Brock the director has made a few changes to the script, so subtle that two members of the audience who know the play well, said that they did not detect any changes. There is not much space in King Lear for happiness. We hear, "Things that love night love not such nights as these." The play ends, "we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long." None would wish to see such things but some would say that we are seeing such things in our own time. Come and see and then "speak what [you] feel, not what [you] ought to say." King Lear runs at Kentucky Repertory Theatre through December 5. For information and tickets call 1-800-342-2177. This story was posted on 2008-11-24 17:03:19
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