Lost Lear

Edinburgh Fringe Festival sensation Lost Lear is a dazzling and highly theatrical reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear. Moving and darkly comic, the story of the mad king is told from the perspective of Joy, a former actress with dementia, living in a memory care facility. Using puppetry, projection, and live video effects, a dynamic ensemble moves deftly between reality and fiction until the audience is unsure which is which. Lost Lear will have you believing in the power of theater as a means to communicate across the chasms between us.

Produced by Riverbank Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre