Lost Lear

Next showing 19:30, Sun 27 Jul 2025 at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Theatre
A moving and darkly comic remix of Shakespeare’s play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear. Joy’s delicately maintained reality is upended by the arrival of her estranged son who, being cast as Cordelia must find a way to speak his piece from within the limited role he’s given. Using puppetry, projection and live video effects, the audience are landed in Joy’s world as layers of her past and present, fiction and reality, overlap and distort. A thought-provoking meditation on theatre.

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Traverse Theatre
Times:
27 Jul
19:30
2 Aug
21:30
3 Aug
10:30
5, 8 Aug
17:30
6, 9, 15, 20, 24 Aug
10:00
7, 10 Aug
14:00
12, 16, 21 Aug
13:15
13, 17, 22 Aug
16:15
14, 19, 23 Aug
19:15
Tickets: £20.00 - £25.00