“It’s Shakespeare, Jim, but not as we know it”

A man in a dressing gown shuffles in, carrying a box. From the box pour the objects, people, quarrels, wrongs, jokes, mistakes, laughter and regrets that make up a life.

Over the next seventy minutes he retraces the path that brought him here, to this Great Stage of Fools: the loss of three daughters, the loss of his knights, the loss of his fool, the loss of his wits… oh, and the storm. Don’t forget the storm. When The Rain Came.

Using only Shakespeare’s words (reordered, repurposed, and sometimes repeated), Lear’s Shadow is a mischievous, engaging reflection on Shakespeare’s great domestic tragedy.

Content warning: this piece includes vivid depictions of Very Poor Parenting.

“…a tour de force. He engaged with the audience brilliantly… well worth watching”
North West End