Recorded in front of a live audience at the venerable Satirikon Theatre in Moscow, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is brought to brilliant life through the staging of award-winning director Yury Butusov. King Lear imagines himself to be God’s equal and divides his kingdom between his daughters to see what will happen. This classic work tells the story of the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual—and shows that these elements are all connected.
In Russian with English subtitles.
Includes one fifteen-minute intermission.