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Geoffrey Rush on playing King Lear: 'What's to like? His parenting skills are appalling!'

by Interview By Nancy Groves

The actor tells how, after years making a mixed bag of films, he and director Neil Armfield brought 'the greatest play in the English language' to Sydney Geoffrey Rush is playing King Lear, which opens this week at the Sydney Theatre Company's Roslyn Packer theatre and continues until 9 January. In an interview with Guardian Australia's Nancy Groves, the Oscar-winning actor talked about playing a part the 19th centur…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:18am on December 2, 2017