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The king is a Fillmore District real estate magnate in Cal Shakes’ twist on ‘Lear’
By Emily S. Mendel | Sept. 20, 2022
On a recent evening, Marcus Gardley’s remarkable modernization of Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear at Cal Shakes shone as brightly as its luminous two-story set of a San Francisco house under Orinda’s night sky.
This world premiere is a poetic production that mirrors Shakespeare’s story, but reimagines it with a 21st-century, modern-verse vocabulary that the audience will more readily understand
