King Lear review - Kathryn Hunter's frail, fond old ruler almost unbearably affecting

Shakespeare's Globe, LondonBack in the role she first played in 1997, Hunter uses her extraordinary transformative powers to show us the king as a geriatric child at the head of a disintegrating nation If the current state of Britain were to reflect a Shakespeare play, many might hope for Richard II: weak and despised leader brutally deposed. But with Boris Johnson resisting that plot, it is King Lear - a nation disintegrating amid a sense of everything ending - that feels most apt. Started by H...