Richmond Shakespeare Society (RSS) – one of the borough’s longest-standing theatre companies – is staging King Lear by William Shakespeare from Saturday 7th to Saturday 14th November at the Mary Wallace Theatre on Twickenham Riverside.
Few would dispute that King Lear is one of the supreme works of mankind. If Shakespeare had written nothing else, this single play would ensure his immortality.
From the age old starting point of fathers and their children, Shakespeare has created a masterpiece that draws the personal, the political, the mythic and the cosmic into an astonishing and terrifying drama of humanity and inhumanity. It reaches back to the oldest of legends, yet is all too real to our news battered 21st century world – and breaks your heart.
As King Lear begins losing his sanity and all he holds dear, his abdication of power starts to hit home. His worst imaginings and fears come true and there is no way for him but to flee the social order he has disrupted and head into the natural world that is now as broken as the political one.
King Lear creates a bear pit of a world into which the characters are thrown and in which none survive unharmed.
www.richmondshakespeare.org.uk
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