Stratford Festival on Film: King Lear
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Sunday, Oct 23, 2022
2 p.m.
| General admission | $9.50 |
| Senior, Students, and DIA Members | $7.50 |
+$1.50 online convenience fee
Canada/2015—directed by Joan Tosoni | 156 minutes
An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
Four centuries after it was written, Shakespeare’s King Lear – starring the incomparable Colm Feore in the role of a lifetime – resonates brilliantly in this Stratford Festival on Film production, staged live at Stratford’s Festival Theatre by Antoni Cimolino and directed for film by Joan Tosoni.
“This superb production is not only the Stratford Festival at its finest, it is Shakespeare at his finest.” -Robert Reid, The Record
Canada/2015—directed by Joan Tosoni | 156 minutes
An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
Four centuries after it was written, Shakespeare’s King Lear – starring the incomparable Colm Feore in the role of a lifetime – resonates brilliantly in this Stratford Festival on Film production, staged live at Stratford’s Festival Theatre by Antoni Cimolino and directed for film by Joan Tosoni.
“This superb production is not only the Stratford Festival at its finest, it is Shakespeare at his finest.” -Robert Reid, The Record