It is actually a rather grown-up piece of theatre and Taymor is keen to warn off the youngsters, arguing that the journey of Simba the lion cub, who defeats his usurping uncle to reclaim his rightful place as king, ranks alongside powerfully symbolic dramas such as Hamlet.
The baritone Peter Castaldi blustered amusingly as the stock repressive uncle.
Jeremy Irons as Scar, Mufasa's younger brother and Simba's uncle, who usurps the throne.
When Ms. Castro's uncle, Fidel, ruled Cuba, the country was among the most repressive for gay people.
Since 1979, Guinea has been ruled by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who took power by overthrowing his uncle in a coup and has acquired notoriety as a repressive ruler.
Jason's uncle Pelias had usurped the throne of Iolcos in Thessaly, which rightfully belonged to Jason's father, Aeson.
The Pevensies first save a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) from drowning, then come to the aid of Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes), fleeing for his life after his wicked uncle (Sergio Castellitto) has usurped the throne and ordered the murder of his nephew.
"LITTLE LAME PRINCE AND THE MAGIC CLOAK," a musical about a young prince who must free his people from an evil uncle who has usurped the throne of his father, the good king.
The bones of the children are in a white marble sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with the inscription: "These brothers being confined in the Tower of London, and there stifled with pillows, were privately and meanly buried, by the order of their perfidious uncle Richard the Usurper".
Tudor and Stuart histories insist that the remains contained in an urn designed by Sir Christopher Wren are those of Edward V and Richard Duke of York who were "stifled with pillows... by the order of their perfidious uncle Richard the Usurper", as the 17th-century inscription puts it.
