Productions

'London has not seen so moving and intelligent a production of "King Lear" in years. And, who knows, it may be still more extraordinary in cinematic close-up when screened worldwide as part of National Theatre Live.'
Variety
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FIVE STARS
'The finest King Lear I have ever seen'
'A Lear to rank with the greatest'
'Excellent Pippa Bennett Warner'
Daily Telegraph
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FIVE STARS
'Jacobi's Triumph. He made the familiar lines new and shook the heart'
'I have never liked a Fool so much'
Justine Mitchell's Reagan...a more than chilly opportunist'
The Times

FIVE STARS
'An evening of greatness'
'One of the most remarkable performances of the past decade'
'Gina Mckee, with her cool beauty, was an icy, quite frightening Goneril'
Daily Express

FOUR STARS
'Jacobi's Lear pierces all our emotional defenses'
The Guardian
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