National Theatre Live: King Lear

Directed by Jonathan Munby and Ross MacGibbon
2018    3h 47m
Drama, History
8.3
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Two aging fathers--one a King, one his courtier--reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble. Tender, violent, moving, and shocking, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written. This will be an explosive, charged, and contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's epic masterpiece in the intimate setting of the Minerva Theatre.
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Cast of National Theatre Live: King Lear
  • Ian McKellenKing Lear
  • Sinéad CusackKent
  • Danny WebbGloucester
  • Kirsty BushellRegan
  • James CorriganEdmund
  • Lloyd HutchinsonFool
  • Claire PriceGoneril
  • Luke ThompsonEdgar
  • Anita-Joy UwajehCordelia
  • Richard ClewsGentleman Informer / Old Man
  • John HastingsCuran / Doctor
  • Jake MannBurgundy / Lear's Knight
  • Michael MatusOswald
  • Caleb RobertsKing of France
  • Anthony HowellAlbany
  • Daniel RabinCornwall
  • Scott SparrowAlbany's Man
  • James Millard
  • Johanne Murdock
  • Jessica Murrain
  • John Vernon

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