National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)

8.1/10 227 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Ian McKellen

King Lear

Sinéad Cusack

Kent

Danny Webb

Gloucester

James Corrigan

Edmund

Lloyd Hutchinson

Fool

Claire Price

Goneril

Luke Thompson

Edgar

Anita-Joy Uwajeh

Cordelia

Michael Matus

Oswald

Anthony Howell

Albany

Daniel Rabin

Cornwall

Scott Sparrow

Albany's Man

Johanne Murdock

Jessica Murrain

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