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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2009
In this short article, the author, who was one of the performers in The King Lear Project, reflects on critical responses to the trilogy, and on what they reveal about the process of evaluating theatre. Having played the role of the Producer in the trilogy, Paul Rae notes that one of his functions was to deliver pre-emptive judgments on the performances as they developed, thereby challenging reviewers to be more than usually self-reflexive in delivering their own. In largely failing to meet this challenge, Rae asserts, the critics' response to the trilogy underscored the role of misrecognition, prescriptiveness and an implicit violence in the act of theatrical judgment.
1 Peter Lathan, ‘The Kunstenfestivaldeasarts Diary (13): The King Lear Project’, British Theatre Guide, 30 May 2008, available at http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/articles/300508d.htm, accessed 1 August 2008.
2 Subhadra Devan, ‘Theatre: Varied Desserts’, New Sunday Times Magazine, available at http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/SundayPeople/article/CinemaTheatre/20080621170352/Article/index_html, accessed 1 August 2008.
3 Bangkok Post, ‘Shakespeare in Singapore’, 18 June, 2008, available at http://www.bangkokpost.com/Outlook/18Jun2008_out55.php, accessed 1 August 2008.
4 Adeline Chia, ‘A Project with Potential’, Straits Times, 16 June 2008, ‘Life!’, p. L7.
5 Christopher Lim, ‘Exit King Lear Project, Followed by Groans’, Business Times, 16 June 2008, p. 21.
6 Ibid., p. 21.
7 Ng Yi-Sheng, ‘Kings of the Asylum’, The Flying Inkpot, June 2008, available at http://www.inkpot.com/theatre/08reviews/0611,thekinglearproj,ny.html, accessed 1 August 2008.
8 Theron Schmidt, ‘Playing with the Audience’, RealTime Arts, August–September 2008, available at http://www.realtimearts.net/article/86/9140, accessed 15 August 2008.
9 Amos Toh, ‘Pointless Didacticism’, Substation Magazine, 25 June 2008, available at http://www.substation.org/mag/review/pointless-didacticism.html, accessed 1 August 2008.
10 Chia, ‘A Project with Potential’, p. L7.
11 Ibid., p. L7.
12 Ng, ‘Kings of the Asylum’.
13 Toh, ‘Pointless Didacticism’.
14 Lathan, ‘The Kunstenfestivaldeasarts Diary (13)’.
15 Lim, ‘Exit King Lear Project’.
16 Ibid.
17 Bangkok Post, ‘Shakespeare in Singapore’.
18 Toh ‘Pointless Didacticism’.
19 Ong Yi Ling, ‘The King Lear Project: A Critical Analysis’, Urban Wire, 19 June 2008, available at http://theurbanwire.com/2008/06/19/the-king-lear-project-a-critical-analysis/, accessed on 1 January 2009.
20 Chia, ‘A Project with Potential’, p. L7.
21 Ng, ‘Kings of the Asylum’.
