Overview
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.
Cast
Jonathan Pryce
King Lear
Clive Wood
Earl of Gloucester
Richard Hope
Duke of Albany
Phoebe Fox
Cordelia
Ian Gelder
Earl of Kent
Zoe Waites
Goneril
Jenny Jules
Regan
Kieran Bew
Edmund
Joplin Sibtain
Duke of Cornwall
Benjamin Dilloway
King of France
Richard Goulding
Edgar
Barry McCarthy
Lear's Gentleman
Trevor Fox
Fool
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