King Lear
2012
2 hr 30 min
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Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Top Cast
Jonathan Pryce as King Lear
Clive Wood as Earl of Gloucester
Richard Hope as Duke of Albany
Phoebe Fox as Cordelia
Ian Gelder as Earl of Kent
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