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.
Directed by Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon
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Ian McKellen
King Lear
Sinéad Cusack
Kent
Danny Webb
Gloucester
Kirsty Bushell
Regan
James Corrigan
Edmund
Lloyd Hutchinson
Fool
Claire Price
Goneril
Luke Thompson
Edgar
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
King of France
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