A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...darkly comic remix of Shakespeare’s King Lear, told through the perspective of Joy, a person living with dementia who finds herself inside an old memory of rehearsing the play.
Her delicately maintained reality is disrupted by the arrival of her estranged son, cast as Cordelia, who must find a way to speak his truth within the confines of the role he’s been given.
Blending puppetry, projection, and live video effects, the performance places the audience inside Joy’s shifting world, where layers of past and present, fiction and memory, continuously fold into one another. A poignant meditation on theatre, illusion, and the limits—and possibilities—of connection, Lost Lear invites us to consider how we communicate across distance, memory, and time..."
