National Theatre Live: King Lear

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Drama | Feb. 3, 2011

An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.

National Theatre Live: King Lear

Drama | Feb. 3, 2011

National Theatre Live: King Lear
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Producers National Theatre of Great Britain Production
Original title National Theatre Live: King Lear
Directors Michael Grandage
Writers William Shakespeare

Cast

Derek Jacobi

as King Lear

Michael Hadley

as Earl of Kent

Paul Jesson

as Earl of Gloucester

Alec Newman

as Edmund

Gina McKee

as Goneril

Justine Mitchell

as Regan

Pippa Bennett-Warner

as Cordelia

Tom Beard

as Duke of Albany

Gideon Turner

as Duke of Cornwall

Stefano Braschi

as Duke of Burgundy

Ashley Zhangazha

as King of France

Gwilym Lee

as Edgar

Amit Shah

as Oswald

Ron Cook

as The Fool

Harry Attwell

as Gentleman

Derek Hutchinson

as Old Servant