Lear's A Role Fit For A King
by Deborah Martin
(excerpt from mySA.com)
The tricky thing about “King Lear,” actor Allan S. Ross says, is that by the time an actor has the age and experience to take on the role, he may be unable to pull off its challenges.
“It's considered to be the one of the most challenging of the Shakespeare roles,” Ross said. “It's Hamlet for a younger person, Lear for an older person.”
Ross has become intimately acquainted with the latter role's demands over the past year as he prepared to play the disintegrating king in Classic Theatre's staging of “King Lear.”
The play opens next weekend at the Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/stage/article/Lear-s-a-role-fit-for-a-king-3532963.php#ixzz1u7zD2Rp5
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The Classic Theatre of San Antonio announces their 2012-2013 SeasonThe Importance of Being Earnestby Oscar Wilde, August 10-26, 2012. Directed by Allan S. Ross The Firebugsby Max Frisch, October 12-28, 2012. Directed by Diane Malone Painting Churches by Tina Howe, February 8-24, 2013. Directed by John O'Neill Scapinby Moliere adapted by Bill Irwin and Mark O'Donnell, May 10-26, 2013.
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