Armed with only a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this inventive, irreverent and highly accessible one-man adaptation is presented to you from the point of view of Lear’s long suffering and ever-loyal fool.
The bastard Edmund, haughty Goneril, poor deluded Gloucester, oily Oswald, sweet Cordelia, mad Tom – all the characters from this sad and sorry tale brought to glorious life in this fast paced, funny, poignant and ultimately heartbreaking production.
Adapted & performed by Paul Morel and directed by John Mowat with all of Oddbodies’ trademark physical ingenuity and visual flair, this is an unmissable reworking of one of Shakespeare’s most brilliant plays.
Oddbodies is the Company behind such highly acclaimed shows as the two-handed Richard III (‘The best evening of Shakespeare I can remember’ - Jersey Evening Post), a feast of Dickens’ grotesques in Sykes & Nancy (‘More damn good theatre than I’ve seen in many an hour and a half’ - Critic’s Choice Time Out) and Hogarth’s paintings vividly brought to life in The Rake’s Progress (‘Startling…saucy, eccentric, spicily amusing and intelligently experimental’ – The London Evening Standard)
