Ioli Andreadi
Young Lear
Based on William Shakespeare‘s King Lear
2016. In a hospital. Five siblings are waiting as surgeons carry out an extremely risky operation on their father. The minutes go by. After long moments of discomfort, fear and silent anguish, the eldest son takes the floor: he assumes the father’s role. His words are those of King Lear and they pour forth unforced from his mouth. The others are hesitant. Why would someone want the father’s role? Gradually, they give in and follow his lead. They undermine him. They provoke him. So are the protagonists of King Lear guardians of family structures and conflicts?
Representatives of Good and Evil? Archetypes for the characters we invent for our ancestors then fail to live up to, torturing ourselves our whole lives long in the process? Can Shakespeare’s language serve as a substitute for everything that’s left unsaid around the dinner table? Can poetry reverse everything that never came to pass?
Following on from the Cenci Family, which delighted audiences and critics alike, Ioli Andreadi returns with a free adaptation of the well-known tale of the King of Britain who is cheated and cast out by his own children; the king who went senile and became vulnerable, who lost his mind and became wise.
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