National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
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.
- Date of release
- 2018-09-27
- TMDB
- 8.1 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 3h 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon
Casting
- Ian McKellen — King Lear
- Sinéad Cusack — Kent
- Danny Webb — Gloucester
- Kirsty Bushell — Regan
- James Corrigan — Edmund
- Lloyd Hutchinson — Fool
- Claire Price — Goneril
- Luke Thompson — Edgar
- Anita-Joy Uwajeh — Cordelia
- Richard Clews — Gentleman Informer / Old Man
- John Hastings — Curan / Doctor
- Jake Mann — Burgundy / Lear's Knight
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