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King Lear at Brooklyn Academy of Music

Dates: (4/7/2018 - 4/29/2018 )

Theatre:

Brooklyn Academy of Music


30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn,NY 11217

Phone: (718) 636-4100

Tickets: $35+

Running Time: 3 hours 15 minutes

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There are Shakespeare kings, and then there is Lear—rain-raving madman, dad with daughter issues, and a role that actors wait a lifetime to play. In this bold offering from RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran and the Royal Shakespeare Company (King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings, 2016 Winter/Spring), inimitable Olivier Award-winning actor Sir Antony Sher (Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts I & II, 2016 Winter/Spring) rises to that teetering throne, giving a career-defining performance as the all-too-trusting monarch in the twilight of his sanity. Beneath a pagan sun that gives way to a bleak winter, Sher’s Lear growls, inhabiting the self-searching conscience of a king who—after unwisely divesting his lands to the wrong people—causes heads to roll.

Tony Awards and Nominations for King Lear



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