Kenneth Branagh, a renowned stage actor, continues to direct himself in theatre productions, despite diminishing returns. His latest production of King Lear suffers from questionable set design and costumes, undermining the tragic nature of the play.
may well be one of our finest stage actor s – but he certainly isn’t one of the country’s leading theatre director s. Yet every time Branagh returns to the stage, he insists upon directing himself rather than entrusting the task to someone with an outside perspective.
But it is hard not to reflect ruefully upon how an external director would have kept all these excesses in check.Culture
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