National Theatre Live: King Lear
Sep 27, 2018 | IMDB 8.2
227 min Watch NowDrama
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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