National Theatre Live: King Lear

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.

• 
  Jonathan Munby
• 
  Ross MacGibbon

• 
  Ian McKellen
  King Lear
• 
  Sinéad Cusack
  Kent
• 
  Danny Webb
  Gloucester
• 
  Kirsty Bushell
  Regan
• 
  James Corrigan
  Edmund
• 
  Lloyd Hutchinson
  Fool
• 
  Claire Price
  Goneril
• 
  Luke Thompson
  Edgar
• 
  Anita-Joy Uwajeh
  Cordelia
• 
  Richard Clews
  Gentleman Informer / Old Man
• 
  John Hastings
  Curan / Doctor
• 
  Jake Mann
  Burgundy / Lear's Knight
• 
  Michael Matus
  Oswald
• 
  Caleb Roberts
  King of France
• 
  Anthony Howell
  Albany
• 
  Daniel Rabin
  Cornwall
• 
  Scott Sparrow
  Albany's Man
• 
  James Millard
• 
  Johanne Murdock
• 
  Jessica Murrain