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.

If Godard’s filmography was placed on a spectrum from linear to discombobulated, King Lear (1987), his postmodern ...

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 ...

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.

and actress Lauren Bacall at the U.S. premiere of Lord Olivier's only Shakespearean production made exclusively for television, "King Lear," in New York, May 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File ...

Shakespeare’s enigmatic story of love, loss and rebirth is directed by Yaël Farber in her RSC debut following acclaimed productions of King Lear and the Olivier-nominated Macbeth for the Almeida ...

King Lear is a video production of William ... and technology of the early Bronze Age rather than the Elizabethan era. Laurence Olivier played Lear in this production to great acclaim, winning ...

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 ...