by Smitty
It was an inverted tale. Rank falsehood rewarded, truthfulness punished. A government gone mad, handing out favors willy-nilly. Cretins jockeying for power, spreading mis-information liberally. The land desolate, while carloads of hedonists party as if so employed. It wasn't until the final scenes, when the post-modern nihilism turned to chain-reaction homicide, that I could be entirely certain that King Lear wasn't, at a high level of abstraction, some kind of statement about the 2008 election.
Cheap shots aside, Keach is the second most rockin' Stacy I know, and turns in a marvelous performance as a monarch gone nutter. The libretto says that the play was unpopular at the time originally staged. Its mood truly fits these whack times.
Madman leading the blind:
Left wing terrorists force Ohio and Indiana Universities to have snipers on
the roof for protection of Jewish students
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It’s come to this at the Marxist indoctrination centers at some of this
country’s universities. In Ohio and Indiana Universities,
The post Left wing terr...
10 hours ago
Stacy Keach as Lear?
ReplyDeleteAh, Cordelia!