National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
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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