Lost Lear

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Artist:

Matt Smyth, Riverbank Arts Centre and Mermaid Arts Centre
Professional company
IRELAND
Performers: 5

Festival:

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Web-Site:

https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/2025LOSTLEB

Genre:

Theatre
Multimedia, Adaptation

Age Limit:

14+

Description:

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. A thought-provoking meditation on theatre.

Warnings:

Strobe lighting, More information This play contains flashing lights and strobe lighting which may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy.

Venue Code:

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Venue Room:

Traverse 1 (capacity 274)

Venue:

Traverse Theatre

Venue Address:

10 Cambridge Street

Venue Postcode:

EH1 2ED

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Performances

Day	Date	Start	End	Duration	Price	Title
Sat	02/08	21:30	22:45	1:15	20.00	PREVIEW
Sun	03/08	10:30	11:45	1:15	25.00
Tue	05/08	17:30	18:45	1:15	25.00	2 for 1
Wed	06/08	10:00	11:15	1:15	25.00
Thu	07/08	14:00	15:15	1:15	25.00
Fri	08/08	17:30	18:45	1:15	25.00
Sat	09/08	10:00	11:15	1:15	25.00
Sun	10/08	14:00	15:15	1:15	25.00
Tue	12/08	13:15	14:30	1:15	25.00
Wed	13/08	16:15	17:30	1:15	25.00
Thu	14/08	19:15	20:30	1:15	25.00
Fri	15/08	10:00	11:15	1:15	25.00
Sat	16/08	13:15	14:30	1:15	25.00
Sun	17/08	16:15	17:30	1:15	25.00
Tue	19/08	19:15	20:30	1:15	25.00
Wed	20/08	10:00	11:15	1:15	25.00
Thu	21/08	13:15	14:30	1:15	25.00
Fri	22/08	16:15	17:30	1:15	25.00
Sat	23/08	19:15	20:30	1:15	25.00
Sun	24/08	10:00	11:15	1:15	25.00