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NT Live: KING LEAR

Lisa Segall, Neighbor

Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) returns to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale (Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy.


An aged king decides to divide his kingdom
between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent
in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Lear’s world
descends into chaos.


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