Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Edinburgh round-up | 9 August 2018

Plus: Lucky's speech is performed brilliantly by Garrett Lombard in the Lyceum's Waiting for Godot

Trump Lear is a chaotically enjoyable one-man show with a complicated premise. David Carl, an American satirist, has arrived on stage to perform King Lear when Donald Trump’s voice interrupts him from the wings. The President threatens to kill him unless he delivers an accessible version of the Shakespeare classic ‘that isn’t boring’.

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