“Shakespeare’s Lear survives in his play and, will endure forever. Brook’s Lear is a new conception, a rethinking, and a critical commentary on the play...”
Screened in tribute to Peter Brook (1925 - 2022)
Paul Scofield stars at the eponymous King Lear in Peter Brook's stark black-and-white adaptation of what is arguably (round these parts, anyway) Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. Influenced by the absurdist theatre of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett ands mostly made in the mid-winter dune country of the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark, Peter Brook's King Lear is perfect late-summer TPFC viewing! (Ahem.) A brilliant cast of British thesps includes Irene Worth as Goneril, Susan Engel as Regan, Cyril Cusack as Albany and Patrick Magee as Cornwall.
