Saudi Arabia Hosts King Lear Play

The cast of King Lear traveled on Friday to Saudi Arabia to show the play on the stage on July 17,18, and 19.

They will return to Cairo on July 20.

The play is starring Yehia El-Fakharany' Farouk Al-Fishawy'Rania Farid Shawki' Riham Abdel Ghafour, Nedal El Shafei, Heba Magdy, Mohamed Farag, Ahmed Azmy, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Yasmeen Raess, and Nasser Seif.

King Lear is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare. It is about King Lear, the elderly king of Britain, who decides to pide his kingdom between his three daughters: Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia.

The play was performed for the first time in 2011 starring Fakharany along with Sawsan Badr, Ahmed Salama, and Riham Abdel Ghafour.