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National Theatre Live: King Lear
Film / 2011

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Drama

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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 JacobiKing Lear Michael HadleyEarl of Kent Paul JessonEarl of Gloucester Alec NewmanEdmund Gina McKeeGoneril Justine MitchellRegan Pippa Bennett-WarnerCordelia Tom BeardDuke of Albany Gideon TurnerDuke of Cornwall Stefano BraschiDuke of Burgundy Ashley ZhangazhaKing of France Gwilym LeeEdgar
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