National Theatre Live: King Lear

This film is being screened at Spruce Peak Arts (122 Hourglass Drive, Stowe, VT 05672). 

Join Spruce Peak Arts for a presentation of National Theatre Live's King Lear by William Shakespeare. National Theatre is one of the world’s most celebrated theatres for Shakespeare and contemporary theater. These HD screen versions are beautifully adapted from their stage and are open to both student groups and the public.

Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two aging fathers – one a King, one his courtier – 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.