King Lear

Король Лир: Маккеллен

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Actors

Король Лир

Ian McKellen

Корделия

Anita-Joy Uwajeh

Регана

Kirsty Bushell

Гонерилья

Claire Price

Кент

Sinéad Cusack

Эдмунд

James Corrigan

Эдгар

Luke Thompson

Шут

Lloyd Hutchinson

Граф Глостер

Daniel Webb

Crew

Director

Jonathan Munby

Set designer

Paul Wills

Lighting Designer

Oliver Fenwick

Sound Designer

Ben Ringham, Max Ringham

About

Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas.

Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

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.