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NT Live: King Lear (live)
Thursday, Sep 27, 2018 2:00 PM
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Admission Student - $0.00
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Event Date Passed
Captured
live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’
(Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. Chichester Festival Theatre’s production
received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers 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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