... and the speed with which Antony Sher rises on crutches and reaches the front of the stage apparently on six legs, thin sleeves trailing like a withered third pair, has the audience drawing back in alarm.

Act and Scene
Credit
Michael Ratcliffe, The Observer
Date
1984
Copyright
©

[He] plays the king as a man of genius who has chosen to be brilliantly evil rather than brilliantly good. His outrageous wooing of Anne is an act of sexual hypnosis with no trace of the frustrated 'normal' man who lurked behind Olivier's villain.

Act and Scene
Credit
Keith Brace, Birmingham Post
Date
1975
Copyright
©

With his shaggy beard and white face, he looks like a blend of Rasputin and Chaplin and has the ruthless humour to go with that image ... but he can swivel from jokey role-playing to psychotic fury in a moment.

Act and Scene
Credit
Benedict Nightingale, The Times
Date
2001
Copyright
©

At the Royal Shakespeare Theatre the impish Mr. Holm was not so much 'an abortive rooting hog' as a naughty schoolboy with a smile as angelic as 'Bubbles'.

Act and Scene
Credit
Felix Barker, Evening News (London)
Date
1964
Copyright
©

Looking like a malevolent tortoise, shaven head sticking out of a humped carapace, he stumbles and lurches from injured innocence and mock alarm to a crescendo of Pere Ubu fury after his coronation.

Act and Scene
Credit
Rex Gibson, Times Educational Supplement
Date
1992
Copyright
©

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