As Shakespeare’s king, Conleth Hill is at his best when the storm is up and the brain befuddled. But this staging is short on big ideas ...

King Lear staggers across a windswept heath ... (a film that derives its structure in part from Benjamin Britten’s opera Noye’s Fludde) a great storm wreaks destruction on a village. A storm of ...

From Shakespeare’s storms to Krishna Sobti’s fire, rain and nature have long symbolized human emotion in literature. Explore ...

Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land evenly amongst his three daughters - Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Before he bestows these gifts upon his daughters, he gives them a ...

Fun and irreverent, Andy Stanton’s retelling of King Lear centres on Lear and ... At the centre of the story of Lear is the terrible storm through which Lear rages in his madness.

Lear (Sir Laurence Olivier) is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who amongst them loves him most.

On Friday, Berlioz’s music sounded perhaps less wild than wan — in those explosive passages of “Les Francs-juges,” for example, and in the tremolo storm scene during “King Lear.” ...

A stage-to-screen film of King Lear, filmed in the round in Manchester. A brutal portrait of a man unravelling - pitted against his daughters, nature and the universe itself. Show more A stage-to ...