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Artistic Director, Michael Attenborough, brings Shakespeare's greatest tragedy to the intimacy of the Almeida Theatre's stage.
Award-winning actor Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean, Brazil, Tomorrow Never Dies) plays the title role in a production that forms part of the World Shakespeare Festival, which is produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for London 2012 Festival.
Michael Attenborough's production also stars Phoebe Fox as Cordelia, Jenny Jules as Regan and Zoe Waites as Goneril.
When Lear asks each of his daughters to profess their love for him, he is flattered by the false hyperbole of Regan and Goneril. When his youngest daughter Cordelia confesses to love him simply as a daughter should, his pride is dented and he casts her out of his kingdom. Too late to realise his mistake, and forced from power by his offspring, an increasingly impotent and frail Lear descends into madness.
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre, London in October 2012.
Production photography copyright: Keith Pattison
7 май 2013
