31 Mar 1960
An Honourable Murder
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Top Billed Cast
Michael Hordern King Lear
Sarah Badel Goneril
Penelope Wilton Regan
Angela Down Cordelia
Frank Middlemass Fool
Anthony Nicholls Earl of Gloucester
Michael Jayston Edmund
Ronald Pickup Edgar
Ewan Hooper Earl of Kent
Benjamin Whitrow Duke of Albany
John Shrapnel Duke of Cornwall
Donald Gee Oswald
David Horovitch Duke of Burgundy
David Neal King of France
George Merritt Old Man
Mike Hayward First Servant
Roger Elliott Second Servant
Geoffrey Collins Third Servant
David Kincaid Gentleman / Attendanton Cordelia
Leslie Glazer Doctor
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