An ageing monarch A kingdom divided A childs love rejected As Lears world descends into chaos all that he once believed is brought into question One of the greatest works in Western literature ...

When the UK’s leading black British theatre company, Talawa, was founded in 1986, it was to fix a glaring problem: black ...

A turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons ... Emma Dargan-Reid is an intelligent, fearless Cordelia and her final scenes with Hill’s childlike, deranged monarch, drowning ...

None of this has stopped King Lear remaining among the most quotable ... The always insufferable Cordelia – no blame attaches to an intelligent turn from Emma Dargan-Reid – does not and ...

Here’s a popular adaptation of King Lear ... Theatre Playbill (Credit: The British Library) In this version the ending has been 'adapted' - the King restored to his throne, and Edgar and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Show more A stage-to-screen film of the epic sell-out production of King Lear starring Don Warrington. This Talawa-Royal Exchange Theatre co-production was filmed in the round in Manchester ...