London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse

“Is this the promised end?” Kent mournfully asks as King Lear carries Cordelia’s corpse on stage at the close of Shakespeare’s most harrowing tragedy. “Or image of that horror?” Edgar, more rational but equally afflicted, wonderingly replies. Doomsday was in the air on a recent trip to London that...

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