King John
Shakespeare for the Classroom
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2h 32m
When the rule of a hedonistic and mecurial king is questioned, rebellion, assassination and excommunication ensue, culminating in the chilling attempt to commit an atrocity against a child, whose mother's anguished grief cannot atone for her blinkered ambitions for her son. With commanding performances by Tom McCamus, Seana McKenna, Graham Abbey and Patricia Collins.
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