Maybe, Maybe, Maybe, Maybe, Maybe

      A first review of Christopher Plummer's Broadway King Lear is out in today's NY Times. It seems several members of the original cast have been retained (Domini Blythe as Goneril, Lucy Peacock as Regan, Barry MacGregor as the Fool), but it looks like they dumped the original Cordelia and the original Gloucester brothers, opting for slightly bigger names (Geraint Wyn Davies and Brent Carver as Edmund and Edgar, respectively). I'm not sure how much weight to give this review, as this reviewer some time ago gave a rather generous review to the Stratford production, but c'est la vie. You'll need the free subscription to the Times to read the article. This blog wonders, though, why they kept Blythe and Peacock, both of whom were pretty weak in the Stratford. MacGregor was excellent as the Fool, but Blythe and Peacock? Oy. We'll have to see how well this Canuck-laden producktion does on the Way. Ay, every centimetre a king!

      In a similar vein, it's nice to see that defending the elderly isn't a totally lost concept. Come not between the Walgreen's staffer and his wrath!