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| A cart, indeed... |
A friend of mine is playing Gloucester in King Lear and I was telling him about the time I saw Anthony Hopkins play Lear at the National, when he dropped Cordelia on stage. He wrote back saying, "Our Lear realised a few weeks ago that carrying Cordelia in his arms was not going to be an option, so he wheels her in on a cart...." Oh, the indignity for poor Cordelia the strong, truly the moral hero of the play, sacrificing all and transcending the traditional female role for the sake of loyalty, love, and truth... stuck in a wheelbarrow. This is for all the unreconstructed men out there who never knew Lear, or Tony Blair, or David Cameron or Sigmund Freud, Elvis, Mick, Cat... oh the list, the list - I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee... though actually if you listen carefully you will hear Mick singing backing vocals (such sweet irony).... and such fun!
