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Singapore is the first stop on the Royal Shakespeare Company&#8217;s international tour of &#8220;King Lear&#8221; and &#8220;The Seagull&#8221; by Anton Chekhov. &#8221; &#8216;King Lear,&#8217; I&#8217;ve been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime &#8230; to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that&#8217;s challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics,&#8221; the 68-year-old actor said Wednesday at a briefing. &#8220;Without doubt, Lear is the one I got most nervous about.&#8221; [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.heraldextra.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=229552&#038;Itemid=99999999\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8212; Ian McKellen says playing the title character in William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;King Lear&#8221; is more nerve-racking than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,10,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SINGAPORE -- Ian McKellen says playing the title character in William Shakespeare&#039;s &quot;King Lear&quot; is more nerve-racking than his recent Hollywood film roles. 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