National Theatre Live: King Lear (2011)

7.0/10 156 min Drama

Overview

An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.

Cast

Derek Jacobi

King Lear

Michael Hadley

Earl of Kent

Paul Jesson

Earl of Gloucester

Alec Newman

Edmund

Gina McKee

Goneril

Justine Mitchell

Regan

Pippa Bennett-Warner

Cordelia

Tom Beard

Duke of Albany

Gideon Turner

Duke of Cornwall

Stefano Braschi

Duke of Burgundy

Gwilym Lee

Edgar

Amit Shah

Oswald

Ron Cook

The Fool

Derek Hutchinson

Old Servant

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