National Theatre Live: King Lear

September. 27,2018      
Rating:
8.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Ian McKellen as  King Lear
Sinéad Cusack as  Kent
Danny Webb as  Gloucester
James Corrigan as  Edmund
Claire Price as  Goneril
Luke Thompson as  Edgar
Anita-Joy Uwajeh as  Cordelia
Anthony Howell as  Albany
Daniel Rabin as  Cornwall

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