
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Michael Hordern
King Lear

Brenda Blethyn
Cordelia
Gillian Barge
Goneril

Penelope Wilton
Regan

John Shrapnel
Earl of Kent

Norman Rodway
Earl of Gloucester

Michael Kitchen
Edmund

John Bird
Duke of Albany
Julian Curry
Duke of Cornwall

David Weston
Duke of Burgundy
Harry Waters
King of France

Anton Lesser
Edgar

John Grillo
Oswald
Iain Armstrong
First Gentleman

Frank Middlemass
Fool