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2018

3 hr 47 min

National Theatre Live: King Lear

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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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Ian McKellen

King Lear

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Sinéad Cusack

Kent

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Danny Webb

Gloucester

Kirsty Bushell

Regan

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James Corrigan

Edmund

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Lloyd Hutchinson

Fool

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Claire Price

Goneril

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Luke Thompson

Edgar

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Anita-Joy Uwajeh

Cordelia

Richard Clews

Gentleman Informer / Old Man

John Hastings

Curan / Doctor

Jake Mann

Burgundy / Lear's Knight

Michael Matus

Oswald

Caleb Roberts

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Anthony Howell

Albany

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Daniel Rabin

Cornwall

Scott Sparrow

Albany's Man

James Millard

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Johanne Murdock

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Jessica Murrain

John Vernon

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Jonathan Munby

Director

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Ross MacGibbon

Director

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William Shakespeare

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