Lear -  ★★★★☆  - Haunting Pitlochry Festival Theatre 9 July – 1 August Review by Rebecca Mahar   Pitlochry Festival Theatre takes on one of Shakespeare’s most towering tragedies for the first time this summer in Finn den Hertog’s adaptation of  Lear , featuring Maureen Beattie in the title role. In this  Lear  of queen and quandaries, den Hertog’s conceptual goals are somewhat subsumed by the play itself, but the production nevertheless delivers a worthy rendition of its storied source. Maureen Beattie and the cast of Lear. Pic: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.   Lear  begins in the elderly monarch’s court, where she declares her intention to retire from the her office as Queen of Britain, and divide her realm among her three daughters. First, however, she asks each of them to profess how much they love her. The eldest and middle daughters, Goneril (Jenny Hulse) and Regan (Lindsey Campbell), make a great show of their professions, hoping for preferment; but the ...