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Performance: King Lear

on BBC Two England

Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's King Lear, showing in the Performance strand. Starring Ian Holm

After disinheriting the youngest of his three daughters because she refuses to pander to his desire for flattery, King Lear suffers the torments of rage, humiliation and madness at the hands of his two eldest daughters before arriving at a painful self-knowledge. See today's choices.
Andrew Duncan interviews Ian Holm: page 14

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Director:
Richard Eyre
Producer:
Sue Birtwistle
Producer:
Joy Spink
King Lear:
Ian Holm
Gloucester:
Timothy West
Goneril:
Barbara Flynn
Regan:
Amanda Redman
Fool:
Michael Bryant
Kent:
David Burke
Edgar:
Paul Rhys
Edmund:
Finbar Lynch
Cordelia:
Victoria Hamilton
Albany:
David Lyon
Cornwall:
Michael Simkins
Oswald:
William Osborne
Old man:
Harry Jones
France:
Adrian Irvine
Burgundy:
Nicholas Bailey
Lear's knight:
Martin Chamberlain
Captain:
Paul Benzing
Messenger:
James Kerr

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