Always, they are waiting. And yet the human comedy persists. Director Nicholas Hytner and playwright Alan Bennett have linked the centuries with wit that throws us into the present. Teamed with a consistently grand supporting cast, the peerless Nigel Hawthorne is riveting. Look forward to a sublime moment when the King, on an expansive English lawn, calls on his Lord Chancellor to read Cordelia to his Lear.
Madness melts to clarity.
The fragile line between the two has the ring of uncomfortable universal truth.