My class saw the Cut Theatre's Lear while we were half-way in doing our comparative study of texts and contexts module, so many of us didn't know what Lear was about and none of us knew what we had to take notes on. It was doubly confusing as one of the actors were playing two parts.
And in light of my current understanding of Lear, I didn't think that Cut Theatre's production was that good at all albeit unique in using slides and hand held lighting...