King Lear Retold

03 Oct 2024 - 04 Oct 2024

Shakespeare North Playhouse

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Tell me my daughters, which of you… doth love us most? 

An old king, afraid to be old. A daughter abandoned for speaking plainly. Two sisters warped by ill-treatment. A kingdom in turmoil.

When Lear divides his kingdom into three, he puts an outrageous test to his daughters. Their answers are not all that he expected. And what he discovers about himself he does not wish to know.

Explosive, deeply felt and often uproariously funny, award-winning storyteller Debs Newbold brings us this international sell-out show, a bold, compelling and contemporary solo retelling of a great Shakespearean tragedy. Rooted in folk and fairytale, told with irreverent relish & bathed in Shakespeare’s incomparable verse, this is Shakespeare shot from the hip.