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King Lear
Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are the daughters of King Lear who is about to make them the rulers of the country as he becomes old and couldn't continue as before. But this may be a problem for the youngest one Cordelia, because she doesn't married so many of rich people will hope to marry her.
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
16 August 1934, London, England, UK
4 May 1959, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
10 February 1986, London, England, UK
May 29, 2018
No doubt conscious of the competition, director Richard Eyre assembled so many galacticos for his bells-and-whistles modern-day-set TV version that at first it was hard to concentrate on anything else.
May 29, 2018
Now 80 himself, the right age, Hopkins is at home in Lear's skin. Shouty, angry, cruel one moment; vulnerable, tender, loving the next - or at the same time. A mesmerising performance.
May 29, 2018
Flawed parenting, ingrate children and family estrangement will never not be relevant, and the modern-day dress gave it the feel of a production at ease with itself.
May 29, 2018
Despite its strength-in-depth cast it ends up as less than the sum of its parts.
May 29, 2018
What is most fresh but coherent is [director Richard] Eyre's interpretation of the three sisters as women absolutely at the end of their tether.