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'King Lear ranks with Trevor Nunn's best work, and Ian McKellen now enters the pantheon of the greatest Lears of the past 50 years... The company acting is impeccable'
Sunday Times
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'One of Ian McKellen's finest performances'
Times
'Ian McKellen is giving what is, surely, the performance of a lifetime. His Lear is psychologically complex, heartrendingly poignant'
Independent on Sunday
'One of the most lucid, powerful and moving productions of this great tragedy I have ever seen... What McKellen achieves, with rare grace, simplicity and emotional candour, is a performance that allows the audience to follow, and understand, every stage of Lear's terrible journey... Trevor Nunn and Ian McKellen have undoubtedly achieved something beautiful and profound'
Daily Telegraph
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'Ian McKellen is a majestic, moving Lear... triumphant'
Guardian
