{"id":11364,"date":"2026-05-01T19:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/theatre-review-vinay-pathak-shines-as-a-clown-in-nothing-like-lear-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:16:23","slug":"theatre-review-vinay-pathak-shines-as-a-clown-in-nothing-like-lear-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/theatre-review-vinay-pathak-shines-as-a-clown-in-nothing-like-lear-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre review: Vinay Pathak shines as a clown in Nothing Like Lear | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130677415,imgsize-537170,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/130677415.jpg\" alt=\"Theatre review: Vinay Pathak shines as a clown in Nothing Like Lear\" title=\"A witty, meta-theatrical spin on King Lear, Nothing Like Lear blends humour and melancholy through a solo performance\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"A witty, meta-theatrical spin on King Lear, Nothing Like Lear blends humour and melancholy through a solo performance\">A witty, meta-theatrical spin on King Lear, Nothing Like Lear blends humour and melancholy through a solo performance<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI laugh, therefore I\u2019m a fool.\u201d When <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vinay-pathak\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Vinay Pathak<\/a> delivers this line as the goofy clown in Nothing Like Lear, it\u2019s almost as if the play is tipping its hat to the Fool in King Lear, building on the line \u201cJesters do oft prove prophets.\u201d <!-- -->While the play draws heavily on the core concept and central characters of one of Shakespeare\u2019s most celebrated tragedies, the title offers a cheeky disclaimer right at the outset that it\u2019s nothing like the original in form and structure.<!-- --> Thanks to the witty script, it\u2019s nearly impossible to box the play into a straightforward adaptation of the original.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The opening scene teases the audience into a playful tug-ofwar between belief and disbelief. <!-- -->Even before the lights dim and the crowd can settle in, Pathak, dressed as a Chaplinesque tramp, ambles onto the stage and declares, \u201cIt hasn\u2019t started yet.\u201d The actor-narrator draws the audience into a gripping solo act filled with witty one-liners that carry an undercurrent of quiet sadness, making it hard to separate fact from fiction.<!-- --> The clown\u2019s rambling storytelling leaves the audience wondering whether what they\u2019re witnessing is the real act or a play within a play.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>The audience interactions punctuate the play\u2019s flow, offering comic relief. The audience becomes an invisible character, with Pathak playing along and feeding off its reactions.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>As the clown recounts snippets from his life, some trivial, others carrying a lingering impact, the play constantly oscillates between tomfoolery and the macabre. Pathak holds the audience\u2019s attention for nearly two hours as the worldly-wise clown, balancing humour with subtle emotional depth. The play infuses the Shakespearean tragedy with everyday human experiences and explores filial and fraternal relationships in the modern context, adding a contemporary layer to the centuries-old tale of intra-familial drama.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/> <\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"review\" msid=\"130677692\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-130677692\/review.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/theatre-review-vinay-pathak-shines-as-a-clown-in-nothing-like-lear\/articleshow\/130677415.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A witty, meta-theatrical spin on King Lear, Nothing Like Lear blends humour and melancholy through a solo performance \u201cI laugh, therefore I\u2019m a fool.\u201d When Vinay Pathak delivers this line as the goofy clown in Nothing Like Lear, it\u2019s almost as if the play is tipping its hat to the Fool in King Lear, building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-delhi"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}