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 ...

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

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In a world ravaged by global warming, pandemics, and natural disaster, King Lear is a man who has brought his country through turmoil, but at what cost? The timeless story of ignorance ...

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...

King Lear has been through so many indignities – compromised by his vanity, betrayed by hypocrites, abandoned to madness – that it seems crueller still that he endured a theatrical boycott.