A month earlier, when the 81-year-old Ms. Jackson accepted the Evening Standard Award for “King Lear” at the Old Vic, the crowd roared its approval. Ms. Jackson — with a helmet of cropped coppery hair, no visible makeup and a black and white dress from Marks & Spencer — roared right back at her audience. “We don’t do standing ovations in England.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyFor once, though, a standing ovation seemed warranted. “There were great difficulties over the kind of production it was going to be,” Ms. Jackson remembered. When I repeated Mr. Warchus’s recollection of that “homecoming” moment to Ms. Jackson, she almost snorted.

Source: New York Times February 20, 2018 10:01 UTC