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McKellen wrestles with 'Lear' and 'Seagull'
King Lear is a popular guy. The list of actors that have recently played the tragedian is impressively long: Kevin Kline, Christopher Plummer, Andre de Shields, F. Murray Abraham, Alvin Epstein and Hal Holbrook.
But 'Lear' being one of Shakespeare's toughest plays, great productions of it are few and far between.
The Kevin Kline production, which took place less than a year ago at...
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