Stagestruck: A Shaky Shakespeare

Stagestruck: A Shaky Shakespeare

Shakespeare & Company’s King Lear, the first show to open on its Lenox campus in a year and a half, marks another return of live theater after the long intermission. It’s also the inaugural production in the troupe’s new outdoor amphitheater, a handsome addition to the company’s stages that brings its history full circle. So it’s especially disappointing to report that this production falls so short of anticipation.

Stagestruck: Live from London, in Amherst

Stagestruck: Live from London, in Amherst

“Especially when compared to other portrayals of people with autism, I think this play is a lot less tone deaf,” says Sunshine Schneider, who like her character is “a person with autism navigating a neuro-typical world.”

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