King Lear 2008 POSTER

King Lear

7.6

71%

Trevor Nunn

Trevor Nunn Director

Romola Garai

Romola Garai as Cordelia

Philip Winchester

Philip Winchester as Edmund

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen as King Lear

Zoe Boyle

Zoe Boyle as Lady in Waiting

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

National Theatre Live: King Lear 2018 POSTER

National Theatre Live: King Lear

8.2

Ross MacGibbon

Ross MacGibbon Director

Lloyd Hutchinson

Lloyd Hutchinson as Fool

Danny Webb

Danny Webb as Gloucester

Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack as Kent

Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen as King Lear

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.

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