Kate Bassett, The Independent on Sunday Sun, 2010-03-14 00:00

The period setting is not specific: a medieval/Edwardian/ modern-day militarised state where the chandeliers flicker in Lear's jerry-built fortress. That ingeniously foreshadows the storm scene, when the King's world collapses and he goes mad in hallucinatory flashes of lightning... In an unforgettable cliff-top scene, in a haze of sunlight, his Lear stands crowned with wild flowers.