20 Apr 2023
National Theatre Live: Good
As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
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.
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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
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