King Lear (2012)
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
- Date of release
- 2012-11-01
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Director
- Michael Attenborough
Casting
- Jonathan Pryce — King Lear
- Clive Wood — Earl of Gloucester
- Richard Hope — Duke of Albany
- Phoebe Fox — Cordelia
- Ian Gelder — Earl of Kent
- Zoe Waites — Goneril
- Jenny Jules — Regan
- Kieran Bew — Edmund
- Joplin Sibtain — Duke of Cornwall
- Benjamin Dilloway — King of France
- Richard Goulding — Edgar
- Barry McCarthy — Lear's Gentleman
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