GENRE: Play (theater)
RATING: NR
RUNNING TIME: 3:40
RELEASE DATE: November 19, 2023
STARRING: Ian McKellen, Sinéad Cusack, Danny Webb
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Munby
WRITER(S): William Shakespeare
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Captured live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this ‘nuanced and powerful’ (The Times) contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play. 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.