Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating ... While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia (Anna Calder-Marshall), refuses ...

“King Lear” features two storylines ... have been done to save the relationship? Cordelia is correct that Lear is vain for expecting his daughters to compete for their inheritance.

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

King Lear is, among other things ... In one scene (the fake trial of Lear's daughters) she effectively uses orange underlighting through a trapdoor in stage center. Conrad Susa has composed ...

In his version both King Lear and his daughter Cordelia live, the King grants his daughter the throne, which she will rule with Edgar, who is soon to become her husband. Edgar sums up the mood of ...

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and his ... the two wicked sisters and the return of good daughter Cordelia, but there is plenty of modern dialogue ...

King Lear has been through so many indignities ... “Nothing will come of nothing,” goes Lear’s challenge to his only sincere daughter, Cordelia. In Cartmell’s hands, that could be ...

A turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons, can get his affairs appropriately sorted and equally divided between his three daughters ... fearless Cordelia and her final scenes ...