Theatre: “Lost Lear” at the Dublin Theatre Festival

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[Info from Dublin Theatre Festival website here.]

Lost Lear – Previews: 28-29 September 2022. Dates: 28 September – 8 October see DTF website for details.

All at once fast paced and thought-provoking, Lost Lear lands us into the world of Joy, a woman with dementia, who is being cared for through a method where people live inside an old memory.

Following the national and international tour of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Dan Colley and his company have turned their sights on a very (very) loose adaptation of King Lear, examining the self and that part of us that’s inaccessible to others.

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” — King Lear, Act I Scene IV

For ages 14+

Talking Theatre – 5th Oct, post-show, with director Dan Colley and members of the company.

Lost Lear will also run from 13th-15th October 2022 in Wicklow at the Mermaid Arts Centre.

Co-produced by Mermaid Arts Centre and Riverbank Arts Centre and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and supported by Fishamble’s New Play Clinic.