King Lear by William Shakespeare performed live at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
2017

Run time  3 hrs 15 mins           English subtitles for the play performance

                                                    Presented in two parts at interval.  Includes an interview        
                                                    with the director plus a short featurette in separate files.

IMDb   tt7164720/

Summary

 "King Lear has three daughters, but no sons. Boldly he makes a decision to
divide his kingdom among his children, but fails to anticipate the consequences of
his actions. His generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear finds himself adrift,
wandering homeless and destitute. As he comes to realize the false values by which
he has lived, he finally encounters his own humanity."

Cast and creatives

directed for the stage by Nancy Meckler
directed for the screen by Ian Russell

Goneril                                   Emily Bruni
Gloucester                           Burt Caesar
Edmund                                Ralph Davis
Edgar                                    Joshua James
Lear                                       Kevin R. McNally
Oswald/Burgundy            Chris Nayak
Fool                                       Loren O'Dair
Albany                                  Thomas Padden
Kent                                      Saska Reeves
Regan                                   Sirine Saba
Cornwall                               Faz Singhateh
France                                   Buom  Tihngang
Cordelia                                Anjana Vasan

My notes

  This upload adds subtitles for the play.  I had posted it earlier from another
source.  The detail is all the same including featurettes.  I recommend people get
the full DVD with the written notes.  Those notes explain a bit about the non-
traditional style of this production.  In particular the concept of 'the lord of
misrule tradition.'  I immediately thought of King Ubu in this regard which is in my
file group and posted a short time ago.  It will be added to the current index.
Lord of Misrule might also apply to the version of The Taming of the Shrew by the
Globe which features the Christopher Sly scene usually not played.  That will be
added to this index in time.

  And it is coincidental that this Lear is posted after a documentary on eldercare
which gives it another ring of truth.

  Anjana Vasan has a growing career.  She was in Behind The Beautiful Forevers
and the Lear and will appear again in Globe Theatre Mid Summer Night's Dream
directed for the Globe by Emma Rice.  That will be posted to this index as well.
In my favorites list also is Joshua James who appears in this Lear and The Globe Tempest.

Notes written September 5th 2019

 Notes updated April 1 2020