Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production
Daily Telegraph
Ian McKellen's detailed, intelligent performance is a triumph
Evening Standard
Intensely moving
The Stage
Nuanced and powerful
Times
Excellent
WhatsOnStage
Smart, lucid, superbly detailed
Guardian
Independent
Metro
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Financial Times
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 - and their worlds crumble.
Tender, violent, moving and shocking, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written. This will be an explosive, charged and contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s epic masterpiece in the intimate setting of the Minerva Theatre.
Jonathan Munby directs, following his acclaimed production of First Light for Festival 2016. His work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes All the Angels, The Merchant of Venice and Antony and Cleopatra; his recent work for the RSC includes Wendy & Peter Pan.
The ensemble of actors includes Ian McKellen, who last appeared at Chichester in The Syndicate in 2011.
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