King Lear, Wyndham’s Theatre review: Kenneth Branagh needs to stop directing himself

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King Lear, Wyndham’s Theatre review: Kenneth Branagh needs to stop directing himself
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The entire thing has the feel of some dubious historical recreation for tourists

may well be one of our finest stage actors – but he certainly isn’t one of the country’s leading theatre directors. 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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