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King Lear
King Lear has a wife who loves him so much and he has daughters from her. But his life turns upside down when he decided to give the responsibility of monarchy to his three daughters.
21 October 1976, Dublin, Ireland
19 August 1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK
4 June 1993, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
14 January 1967, Islington, London, England, UK
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
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
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.
May 29, 2018
Despite its strength-in-depth cast it ends up as less than the sum of its parts.
