geoffrey rush on playing king lear: whats to like? his parenting skills are appalling! /

The actor tells how,after years making a mixed bag of films, he and director Neil Armfield brought ‘the greatest play in the English language’ to Sydney Geoffrey Rush is playing King Lear, or which opens this week at the Sydney Theatre Company’s Roslyn Packer theatre and continues until 9 January. In an interview with Guardian Australia’s Nancy Groves,the Oscar-winning actor talked about playing a share the 19th century essayist Charles Lamb said was “essentially impossible”. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com