About King Lear

Front Room’s production presents the bitter chronicle of one man’s dark journey from ignorance to understanding.
 
King Lear has absolute power. He will only relinquish it in return for the absolute love of his children. But Lear is betrayed by flattery, greed and his own pride. Rejected by his daughters, crazed with rage at his lost status and their cruelties he descends into madness.
 
Naked and out of his mind on a barren heath, Lear confronts his demons – so that wisdom, reconciliation and real love can begin to grow.
 
Four hundred years after it was written Shakespeare’s masterpiece of ingratitude, injustice and meaningless of life in an uncaring world continues to thrill and astonish with poetry, simplicity and dramatic power.