A Lear to remember …

… ‘King Lear’ Review: Live Among the Trees.

“Lear” asks so much of its star, especially in the storm scene, that the role is normally played by a much younger man. Mr. Lloyd, to be sure, is no longer able to shake the rafters, for which reason the storm has been dialed back in sonic intensity. But he is still a magnificent performer who effortlessly projects his lines all the way to the back row of the amphitheater—which is where I sat—and it is unutterably pitiable to watch him lose his reason and descend into a cloud of unknowing from which Cordelia ( Jasmine Cheri Rush ), Lear’s only loyal daughter, and the Earl of Kent ( Jonathan Epstein ), who is as true to him as Gloucester and Cordelia, are unable to rescue him.