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Goneril, Regan and Cordelia are the daughters of King Lear who is about to make them the rulers of the country as he becomes old and couldn't continue as before. But this may be a problem for the youngest one Cordelia, because she doesn't married so many of rich people will hope to marry her.
Flawed parenting, ingrate children and family estrangement will never not be relevant, and the modern-day dress gave it the feel of a production at ease with itself.
Now 80 himself, the right age, Hopkins is at home in Lear's skin. Shouty, angry, cruel one moment; vulnerable, tender, loving the next - or at the same time. A mesmerising performance.
No doubt conscious of the competition, director Richard Eyre assembled so many galacticos for his bells-and-whistles modern-day-set TV version that at first it was hard to concentrate on anything else.