Jonathan Pryce in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

: Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, Islington, London51.539453 -0.103986
Date:: 31st August to 3rd November 2012
Tickets:: £8 to £32, from almeida.co.uk
Tel:: +44 (0) 207 359 4404
Buses:: 4 19 30 38 43 56 73 341 476 812
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Hollywood actor Jonathan Pryce will be starring in one of the greatest works in western literature -- William Shakespeare's "King Lear".

Lear is an ageing monarch in a divided kingdom. When he asks his three beloved daughters to profess their love for him, two of them humour the elderly king with flattering platitudes. But when his third daughter Cordelia confesses to love him just like a daughter should, he casts her out of his kingdom for wounding his pride.

His world soon descends into chaos, and all that he once believed is brought into question. His first two daughters force him from power, and an increasingly impotent and frail Lear descends into madness.

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