I have just returned from viewing Lear at the San Diego Repertory Theatre with John Woodward in the title role. A better Lear I have never seen; over the span of 400 years since the play was written, I could still tremble at the passion and horror of it.

Lear himself was impeccable, and because he knew every word he was using he sounded so persuasive that the leap of tongues from 21st Century American to 17th Ce. English was effortless. The moral and the lessons stay true as long as their are leaders who pervert the purposes of their positions for their own agenda.

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