Foolishness and Enlightenment in “Lear is Dead”
about 67 months ago (11/04/2018)
Foolishness and Enlightenment in “Lear is Dead” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 5, 2018 By Casidhe Ng (1,200 words, six-minute read) “You are a madman, and we are but fools,” the ensemble resounds. So begins Nine Years’ Theatre’s Lear is Dead , an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear that borrows from the Chinese opera tradition, and a densely layered performance described as a “play-within-a-play”. True to its word, the show prefaces itself with a “pre-show dialogue” featuring various members of “The Fool’s Society”, a group of “players” who are staging a production about Lear, their former and deceased king.