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  06.22.92 | No Comments | Filed Under British Imports, Classical Theater, Shakespeare, The New Yorker Archive

  
  

  Ian McKellan’s Richard III at BAM

  The New Yorker, June 22, 1992

  The problem with star-centered Shakespeare as the British serve it up is that it leaves the actors thinking they have nothing to do—which is to say, nothing to act. Continue reading

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