National Theatre Live: King Lear

National Theatre Live: King Lear was released on September 27, 2018.

National Theatre Live: King Lear was directed by Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon.

National Theatre Live: King Lear has a runtime of 3h 47m.

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.

The key characters in National Theatre Live: King Lear are King Lear (Ian McKellen), Kent (Sinéad Cusack), Gloucester (Danny Webb).

National Theatre Live: King Lear is a Drama, History film.

National Theatre Live: King Lear has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.

National Theatre Live: King Lear has made $1.1M at the box office.