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Great Performances

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Great Performances - Season 36 Episode 5 King Lear


(24 votes, average: 6.00/ 10)

48 minutes 2026 HD

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2009 Emmy Nominee Ian McKellen recreates his recent stage performance of Shakespeare's tragic monarch in a special television adaptation. Directed by Trevor Nunn, the telecast includes nearly all the original cast members of the sold-out Royal Shakespeare Company production that premiered in Stratford-Upon-Avon in April 2007.

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