Film, Theater

National Theatre Live: King Lear

When: Sat., May 14, 12 p.m. and Sat., May 21, 12 p.m. 2022

Recorded live in 2018, see Ian McKellen’s extraordinarily moving portrayal of King Lear.

Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfered to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.

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.

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Price: $24 general admission

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