Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.
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South Korean director Jung Young-doo has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, Britain's highest honor in theater, for ...
reunite in their third collaboration and lead an all-star cast for their upcoming production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, adapted and directed by BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning director Richard ...
for King Lear, Best Actress (Olivier Awards) for Hedda Gabler, Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Constellations, Theatre World Award (Theatre World Awards) for ...
Adam Cork has won several awards, including Best Designer at the Evening Standard Awards for Anna Christie and King Lear. He has also received the Best Sound Design award at the Olivier Awards for ...
It has already won Best New Play at the 2024 Olivier Awards and is being adapted ... For over 150 years, Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear was performed with a less than tragic ending.
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 ...
A turbulent future beckons unless Lear, king of the Britons, can get his affairs appropriately sorted and equally divided between his three daughters before he dies or loses cognisance — or both.