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Pic supplied by the Riverbank Arts Centre.
Lost Lear, a theatre performance from the mind of Dan Colley, will be coming to the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge soon.
The critically-acclaimed show returns with a new national tour this Autumn.
The synopsis for Lost Lear reads as follows: " Following the national and international tour of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Dan Colley and his company have turned their sights on a very loose adaptation of King Lear, examining the self and that part of us that's inaccessible to others.
"A moving and darkly comic remix of Shakespeare's play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia, who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear.
"Joy's delicately maintained reality is upended by the arrival of her estranged son who, being cast as Cordelia, must find a way to speak his piece from within the limited role he's given.
"Using puppetry, projection and live video effects, the audience are landed in Joy's world as layers of her past and present, fiction and reality, overlap and distort.
"Lost Lear is a thought-provoking meditation on theatre, artifice and the possibility of communicating across the chasms between us."
Lost Lear by Dan Colley will performed at Riverbank Arts Centre on Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 21 at 8pm.
Tickets are priced €18/€16 and can be booked through the Box Office, either in person or by telephone on 045 448 327 Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5pm (closed for lunch 2pm to 2.30pm) and Saturday 10am to 1pm.
Tickets can also be booked 24/7 on www.riverbank.ie – Online tickets subject to €1 booking fee per ticket.
PRAISE FOR LOST LEAR:
"A captivating journey, from an energetic and rambunctious beginning to the poignant and gentle end, it portrays the bewilderment of someone who wants to care, trying to have the shared experience with the person living with dementia, struggling and sometimes failing.
"I am delighted to hear that Lost Lear is on tour and many more people will have the opportunity to see it for the first time - or again."
- Susan Crampton, Dementia Carers Campaign Network
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