Patrick Page's Lear doesn't go mad—he unravels like a crown of thorns, one memory at a time.
Caught in a carousel of memory, the head of a dysfunctional royal family grapples with power-hungry children and the threat of losing the empire he created. Real and imagined worlds coalesce, creating a political and personal horror that threatens to swallow the mind of the monarch.
Acting
Page's voice becomes the storm itself—cracked, booming, then terrifyingly small.
Direction
Godwin traps Lear in a shifting void where past and present bleed.
Production
The set breathes and collapses like a dying lung.
Director
Simon Godwin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godwin's production specifically frames Lear's dementia as the central horror, making the political chaos almost a symptom of his unravelling mind.
Patrick Page, Broadway's go-to villain (Hades in Hadestown, the Green Goblin), finally plays a man destroyed by his own monstrousness.
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