Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre
National Theatre Live: King Lear on the Web:Official Website
National Theatre Live: King Lear
Audience Score
3 hr 47 minDrama
Plot
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.
