Lear review – Shakespeare epic becomes howling hour of whimsy

Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Valda Setterfield, doyenne of the New York dance scene, plays the ageing monarch in a collage of movement and textAnyone who has done time watching a theatrical knight bellow his way through King Lear may relish this 60-minute dance distillation. It’s slimmed to four, gender-switched performers – the ageing monarch is played by Valda Setterfield, doyenne of the New York dance scene, with three men as her wayward daughters.A paper crown on her head, silver