National Theatre Live: 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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  Ian McKellen

  King Lear
• 
  Sinéad Cusack

  Kent
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  Danny Webb

  Gloucester
• 
  James Corrigan

  Edmund
• 
  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
• 
  Michael Matus

  Oswald
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  Anthony Howell

  Albany