Just to acknowledge the best performances of Shakespeare’s tragic heros that I’ve seen:
David Warner as Hamlet in Peter Hall’s production for the RSC at the Aldwych back in the 60s — the tortured scholar.
Olivier as Othello at the Old Vic, also, I think, in the 60s — possibly early 70s. The athleticism of the man !
Timothy West as Lear in the English Stage Co production a few years ago — which came to the York Theatre Royal — it moved me to tears.
And Patrick Stewart’s Stalinesque dictator Macbeth at the Gielgud last year –chilling.
A privilege to have seen them.
