King Lear 2023

Run Time:
Approximately 2 hours No interval

Ages: 12+

Opened: October 31, 2023
Closing: December 09, 2023

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Wyndham's Theatre

(Leicester Square) Charing Cross Road London

Kenneth Branagh will direct and play the title role for 50 performances only at Wyndham’s Theatre from 21 October.

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Kenneth Branagh’s show has glimpses of greatness

6 / 10

If you had doubts about whether the actor-director has the gravitas to take on one of the great Shakespearean roles, you’d have them confirmed here. At 62, Branagh has entered bus pass territory, yet there is still a hint of the unruly colt to the king who announces his decision to divide his domain between his daughters. For all the solidity of his verse-speaking, it’s hard to believe that this glossy-haired patriarch is really on the verge of mental and spiritual disintegration.

Kenneth Branagh’s production is overblown and insubstantial

2 / 10

It’s perhaps Shakespeare’s most harrowing tragedy: an epic vortex of familial trauma, dementia, atrocity and war. Kenneth Branagh’s production – in which he also stars – fillets and compresses the play into just two interval-free hours. Yet it feels interminable. Confused in concept and clumsy in execution, it manages to be at once overblown and insubstantial. It is crammed with florid gesture and self-conscious declaiming, and offers scarcely a single moment of emotional truth.

King Lear FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How long has King Lear been running on the West End?

King Lear opened at the Wyndham's Theatre on Tuesday Oct 31, 2023 and has now been running for 1 month.

Other Productions of King Lear

1754	Broadway	Broadway
1905	Broadway	Broadway
1906	Broadway	Broadway
1907	Broadway	Broadway
1907	Broadway	Broadway
1907	Broadway	Broadway
1909	Broadway	Broadway
1911	Broadway	Broadway
1915	Broadway	Broadway
1917	Broadway	Broadway
1918	Broadway	Broadway
1923	Broadway	Broadway
1930	Broadway	Broadway
1930	Broadway	Broadway
1947	Broadway	Broadway
1950	Broadway	Broadway
1962	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
1968	Broadway	Broadway
1973	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
1978	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
1982	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
1990	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
1996	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2004	Broadway	Lincoln Center Revival Broadway
2006	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2007	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2011	Off-Broadway	Public Theater Production Off-Broadway
2014	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway
2014	Off-Broadway	Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park Off-Broadway
2016	West End	Old Vic Revival Production West End
2018	West End	Chichester Festival Theatre West End Revival West End
2019	Broadway	Broadway Revival Broadway
2023	West End	West End
2024	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway

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