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National Theatre Live in HD: King Lear"

“Ian McKellen's detailed, intelligent performance is a triumph” (Evening Standard) in Shakespeare’s tender tragedy. Live in HD

10/14/2018
4 pm – 8 pm
Visual Arts Center 104 Loew Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Fee required. Tickets required.

“Ian McKellen's detailed, intelligent performance is a triumph” (Evening Standard) in this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender tragedy about two aging fathers—one a King (McKellen), one his courtier—who reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends. Runtime: 3h40m

“In the wraparound intimacy of this space, McKellen is able to heighten the intensity of what Lear says through colloquial understatement and a playing-around with the beat and tempo of the verse that gives an almost jazz-like freedom and unpredictability to the king’s utterances.” —The Independent

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