For any actor with heavyweight pretensions, especially British actors with theatrical pedigree, Lear is one of the big characters. Michael Billington describes the role as “a theatrical Everest”, and most of the major names have left their versions: John Gielgud (1931), Laurence Olivier (1946), Paul Scofield (1962), Ian McKellen (2007), Don Warrington (2016) and Antony […]
Author Archives: Eliot Wilson
Eliot Wilson is policy editor of Culturall. A writer and strategic adviser, he is co-founder of Pivot Point Group, and is also a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and City AM. He was previously a clerk in the House of Commons.
