Kenneth Branagh and Jessica Revell as Lear and Cordelia. Photo: Marc J. Franklin/Courtesy The Shed Kenneth Branagh and ...

The British actor stars in and co-directs this brisk, emotionally vacuous production of the towering drama at the Shed.

Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.

Goneril talks to King Lear, her father, telling him that he is acting foolish and not attending to his kingdom. She does this with an alterior motive to find a reason to kick him out of his kingdom.

You will not be able to keep your eyes off the eye. Visitors to the thrilling, trimmed-down Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company ...

King Lear is, among other things ... Rosemary Murphy looks hateful enough for the arch-villainous Goneril, but she lacks the requisite venom in her diction. Cordelia does not have many lines ...

King Lear, follows the eponymous king as he decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on their professions of love for him. The elder sisters, Goneril and Regan, craftily ...

Laurence Olivier is the consummate King Lear, monarch of 9th-century Britain, in this handsomely staged version of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy. Gloucester: Leo McKern. Goneril: Dorothy Tutin.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

King Lear, his Fool and his army have taken up home at Goneril's estate. Goneril is fed up with all the antics that have taken place. Preparing for retirement, King Lear decides to split his land ...

Charles Lamb is responsible for the idea that King Lear cannot be shown on ... may be a more difficult role than Lear. Her sisters Goneril and Regan, Madelon Hambro and Emily Levine, are excellent ...

King Lear, old and tired ... he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him.