Opening week, Sir Derek Jacobi will play the lead role in the Donmar Warehouse production of King Lear when it is streamed live into over 300 cinemas around the world.
One of the most keenly awaited Shakespearean performances of recent times – Sir Derek Jacobi's King Lear – is to be broadcast live in more than 300 cinemas across the world.
The Donmar Warehouse in London will announce today that it is to follow the National Theatre's example and will be filming King Lear during a performance next February.
It is one way of tackling a repeated criticism of the Donmar, with its tiny audience capacity of 250: that it puts on amazing theatre which too few people get to see. Michael Grandage, the Donmar's artistic director who will also direct Jacobi, said he was "regularly made very aware" of how small the audience space was and the theatre had worked very hard at broadening access, from always making seats available on the night to the one year residency in London's West End last year which included Jude Law as Hamlet.
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