King Lear

RSC, Director David Farr

King Lear is David Farr’s 2010 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy starring Greg Hicks in the title role. The play follows the elderly King of England as he decides to retire from power and divide his kingdom between his three daughters, on the condition that they prove their love for him. When the daughters betray their father and attempt to usurp the throne from under him, the King is slowly driven mad.


Hicks as Lear

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Hicks rises to the challenge of Lear.

Michael Billington The Guardian

Greg Hicks as Lear proves that the character is not only attainable, but that in a great actor’s hands, Lear can take us into the kind of emotional profundity only Shakespeare can achieve.

Richard Edmonds The Stage

Hicks's Lear is as total and powerful a performance as was his Coriolanus

Michael Coveney The Independent

A dauntless performance from Greg Hicks as King Lear provides the centrepiece of the play.

Claire Steele What's On Stage