National Theatre Live: King Lear
8.1/ 10
2018
3h 47m
Drama
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
Top Cast
Ian McKellen
King Lear
Sinéad Cusack
Kent
Danny Webb
Gloucester
K
Kirsty Bushell
Regan
James Corrigan
Edmund
Lloyd Hutchinson
Fool
Claire Price
Goneril
Luke Thompson
Edgar
Anita-Joy Uwajeh
Cordelia
R
Richard Clews
Gentleman Informer / Old Man
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