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Life and a Day
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
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
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Johanne Murdock 
Jessica Murrain
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