{"id":31508,"date":"2009-03-25T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31508"},"modified":"2009-03-25T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:05:09","slug":"pbs-brings-mckellen-as-king-lear-to-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/03\/25\/31508-pbs-brings-mckellen-as-king-lear-to-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS brings McKellen as &#8216;King Lear&#8217; to the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/957725-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"957725\" title=\"957725\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31510 no-lazyload\" \/>Sir Ian McKellen received rave reviews for his performance in the title role of &#8220;King Lear,&#8221; but he&#8217;s quick to give credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n<p>The playwright.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lear \u2014 it&#8217;s all there. It&#8217;s all pretty obvious what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Although a psychiatrist reviewed the production and praised me for having clearly done my research into the particularity of Lear&#8217;s mental problem. I&#8217;ve done nothing of the sort. I&#8217;ve done no research whatsoever. I just played the part as it seemed to me the words wanted me to. And the brilliance was not mine, but Shakespeare&#8217;s.\u00a0 Read <A href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/705291936\/PBS-brings-McKellen-as-King-Lear-to-the-masses.html\" target=\"_blank\"><B>McKellen as &#8216;King Lear&#8217; to the masses<\/a><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ian McKellen received rave reviews for his performance in the title role of &#8220;King Lear,&#8221; but he&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[49,10],"tags":[729,731,730],"class_list":["post-31508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-lotr-cast-news","tag-ian-mckellen","tag-king-lear","tag-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}