King Lear’s relevant in our tragedy

CHARLES McNULTY may have been critical of Sir Ian McKellen’s performance as King Lear at UCLA [“The King of Pain,” Oct. 22], but one line by your reviewer was certainly stellar: “McKellan’s Lear gusts across the stage like an angry wind.”

Printed on Monday as angry winds blew havoc into Southern California, one must give props to McNulty’s take on a “timeless drama” wherein a “force of nature” says at one point: “Blow winds! Crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!”

Proof again that theater has the power to be the chronicler of our time.

Hank Rosenfeld

Santa Monica