The Broadway play as envisioned by the director Sam Gold, however, is lush; the set, a jewel box, with brassy, Trumpian accents.
“Glenda is so lean, and I don’t just mean that physically,” the actor Elizabeth Marvel, who plays Goneril, told me.
Jackson is the smallest person on stage, but you won’t notice it — she arrives cascading over the language, dominating it.
“Glenda is going to do something very intense, very special, very big,” he said.
Glenda Jackson is going to endure this, and you’re going to witness it.”For most of its history, this ritual has been considered too traumatizing for the stage.
Persons:
“ King Lear, ”, Deborah Warner, Jackson, Sam Gold, Lear, — “, ” Jackson, Glenda, Elizabeth Marvel, Goneril, Shakespeare, Ophelia, Prince of, ” Gold, Lear I’ve, Gold, “ Glenda, You’re, Glenda Jackson, Charles Lamb, Samuel Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Edmund, Gloucester
Locations:
Prince of Stratford, ”