King Lear
Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
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Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
Colm Feore
King Lear
Jonathan Goad
Kent
Sara Farb
Cordelia
Maev Beaty
Goneril
Liisa Repo-Martell
Regan
Stephen Ouimette
Fool
Scott Wentworth
Gloucester
Evan Buliung
Edgar
Brad Hodder
Edmund
Michael Blake
Albany
Mike Shara
Cornwall
Thomas Olajide
Oswald
Karl Ang
King of France
Derek Moran
Burgundy
Xuan Fraser
Curan
Robert King
Old Man
Josue Laboucane
Captain
Gordon S. Miller
Herald / Knight
Michael Spencer-Davis
Doctor
