National Theatre Live King Lear 2018 Two aging fathers one a King, one his courtier reject the children who truly love them Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble Tender, violent, moving, and shocking, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written This will be an explosive, charged and contemporary retelling of Shakespeares epic masterpiece in the intimate setting of the Minerva Theatre