King Lear (Original title)
Date: 21 March 1998 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Richard Eyre
Synopsis: Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production. 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.Synopsis: Studio-based filmed version of the Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's play.
Genre: Drama
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 21 March 1998Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-23:20Runtime: 81 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound - Stereo
Date: 21 March 1998 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Richard Eyre
Synopsis: Richard Eyre's film version of his award-winning Royal National Theatre production. 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.Synopsis: Studio-based filmed version of the Royal National Theatre production of Shakespeare's play.
Genre: Drama
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 21 March 1998Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-23:20Runtime: 81 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound - Stereo
Credits
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Production Company: Chestermead Productions, Production Company: BBC Films, Production Company: WGBH (Boston), Commissioning Company: BBC, Executive Producer (BBC): Simon Curtis, Executive Producer (WGBH/Boston): Rebecca Eaton, Producer: Sue Birtwistle, Co-producer: Joy Spink, Author of the Original Work: William Shakespeare, Director of Photography: Roger Pratt, Production Designer: Bob Crowley, Sound: John Pritchard, Studio: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Ian Holm (King Lear), Timothy West (Gloucester), Barbara Flynn (Goneril), Amanda Redman (Regan), Michael Bryant (Fool), David Burke (Kent), Paul Rhys (Edgar), Finbar Lynch (Edmund), Victoria Hamilton (Cordelia), David Lyon (Albany), Michael Simkins (Cornwall), William Osborne (Oswald), Harry Jones (old man), Adrian Irvine (France), Nicholas Bailey (Burgundy), Martin Chamberlain (Lear's knight), Paul Benzing (captain), James Kerr (messenger)