King Lear

Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

• Michael AttenboroughDirector

• Jonathan PryceKing Lear
• Clive WoodEarl of Gloucester
• Richard HopeDuke of Albany
• Phoebe FoxCordelia
• Ian GelderEarl of Kent
• Zoe WaitesGoneril
• Jenny JulesRegan
• Kieran BewEdmund
• Joplin SibtainDuke of Cornwall
• Benjamin DillowayKing of France
• Richard GouldingEdgar
• Barry McCarthyLear's Gentleman