Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

The Bristol Shakespeare Society craft a frighteningly powerful and visually immersive performance of King Lear, serving a ...

Set in the fictional present, King Lear sees Academy Award winner Anthony ... The Terror), plays the Duke of Cornwall. Anthony Calf (New Tricks, Riviera) plays the Duke of Albany and Karl Johnson ...

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.