National Theatre Live: King Lear

It runs long at 3h 47m.

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.

• Jonathan MunbyDirector
• Ross MacGibbonDirector

• Ian McKellenKing Lear
• Sinéad CusackKent
• Danny WebbGloucester
• Kirsty BushellRegan
• James CorriganEdmund
• Lloyd HutchinsonFool
• Claire PriceGoneril
• Luke ThompsonEdgar
• Anita-Joy UwajehCordelia
• Richard ClewsGentleman Informer / Old Man
• John HastingsCuran / Doctor
• Jake MannBurgundy / Lear's Knight