That movie was King Lear. I knew it had almost nothing to do with Shakespeare’s King Lear through its reputation, but it had ...

The slate is headlined by Jean-Luc Godard's "King Lear," an essential work from the ... as a jumping off point for a postmodern riff on art in a world decimated by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.

“We were rehearsing Shakespeare’s King Lear when suddenly our men were taken ... transforming its space into a hub for art and wartime volunteer work, and casting women in most roles.

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...

Olivier Award winner Conleth Hill takes the lead role, with Jolly Abraham, Eavan Gaffney and Emma Dargan-Reid as Lear’s daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Roxana Silbert, a former associate ...

Shakespeare's works were far from sacrosanct. Here’s a popular adaptation of King Lear where almost everyone, except for the real 'baddies', lives happily ever after. Loved by spectators ...

Or when a patriarch succumbs to flattery over a more difficult truth? Shakespeare asks these questions and more in King Lear, his study of political vacuums and family dynamics. The ageing King ...

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...