OK, so tonight we watched the PBS King Lear. And that's my plot summary.
Ian McKellan as Lear was perfect. I didn't recognize any of the other names in the cast.
My favorite characters in Lear are the evil nasty sisters: Goneril and Regan; and especially Goneril - fortunately they don't get killed until close to the end because I would have missed their presence. To be honest I find it hard to track the big picture of the "plot" but all the interchanges are very fascinating.
I think it might be mine, too, but I wouldn't want to see it every week; it's emotionally rather exhausting.
Apparently men named Ian tend to play him best... just a hypothesis.
:D
I'm not going to attempt to explain, in the space of an LJ comment, what I think the play is "about".