National Theatre Live: King Lear(2014)

🎬205 min
📅2014-05-01
🎭Drama
⭐7.1/10

Overview

An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Production

National Theatre

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Cast

Simon Russell Beale
as Lear, King of Britain
Kate Fleetwood
as Goneril
Anna Maxwell Martin
as Regan
Olivia Vinall
as Cordelia
Richard Clothier
as The Duke of Albany
Michael Nardone
as The Duke of Cornwall
Stephen Boxer
as The Earl of Gloucester
Stanley Townsend
as The Earl of Kent
Tom Brooke
as Edgar
Sam Troughton
as Edmund

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