Lear’s Shadow
Sunday, 12 April 2026
- Time
- 19:00 - 22:00
- Venue
- Derby Theatre, St Peter's Quarter, DE1 2NF
- Price
- Standard: £17 - Under 26s: £15
SPOILER ALERT: At the end of Shakespeare’s play Lear dies.
“It’s Shakespeare, Jim, but not as we know it”
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A man in a dressing gown shuffles in, carrying a box. From the box he pulls the objects, people, quarrels, wrongs, jokes, mistakes, laughter and regrets that add up to a life.
Over the next seventy minutes he re-treads the path that brought him here, to This Great Stage of Fools: the loss of his daughters, the loss of his knights, the loss of his fool, the loss of his wits… oh, and the storm. Don’t forget the storm. When The Rain Came.
Using only Shakespeare’s words (reordered, repurposed, and often repeated) Lear’s Shadow is a mischievous, engaging reflection on Shakespeare’s great domestic tragedy.
Content Warning: this piece contains vivid depictions of Very Poor Parenting.
Venue
Derby Theatre
15 Theatre Walk, Derbion
St Peter's Quarter
DE1 2NF
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