By Mike Fischer
November 16, 2012
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
At the beginning of the "King Lear" now on stage at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - a collaboration with the Massachusetts-based Shakespeare & Company - naked scaffolding is wrapped in white sheets, shaped to suggest the classical facade of an ordered world.
During the ensuing three hours, that thin disguise will be torn asunder, piece by tattered piece - much as Lear himself is stripped of his clothes and illusions.
One of the strengths of director Rebecca Holderness' vision is its relentless focus on this big picture, reinforced by her decision to set this production in 1906 Russia - one year after the bloody 1905 Revolution that foreshadowed the cataclysm to come.
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