King Lear, weary and drunk with melancholy, relinquishes his crown to sink light-heartedly into the grave. A battle for his kingdom unfolds among his daughters. The king is tormented and gradually sinks into madness and despair. On the storm-tossed heath, surrounded by fools, he realizes the true nature of the world: loneliness and torment.
Always interspersed with enchanting comedy and melancholy wit is this dark endgame. A dream play full of folly and melancholy, of the demons that slumber at the bottom of our souls.
Shakespeare's blackest tragedy, a battle against fathers, against the dungeon of our own minds, full of bilious comedy and bitter grotesquerie.
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