KING LEAR IS DEAD

Shakespeare in the Pub

"The wheel is come full circle. I am here."

This is a big house, this one, full of locked doors and strange sounds, so very small really. It's an uncomfortable family dinner. It is, as they say in the theatre, intimate - it's warm, oddly so, like it might be alive, like it's breathing, or is that just the storm? Well, it hums in the soft middle of every earworm, of every tightening knot. You know it. It's not unfamiliar to you. Perhaps you have always known it.

The king is ready to split his kingdom between his daughters in preparation for his old age, but not for them to defy his expectations. This reworking of Shakespeare's masterpiece is an eerie, eclectic, pitch-black tragicomedy about family and the things it does to us. For some difficult conversations, a little murder, and a lot of rain, join us in the haunted world of an abandoned theatre, where the houses of Lear and Gloucester are just beginning to crumble...

Event Details

Genre: Theatre

Duration: 105 mins

Price: £15

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Information

Loud noises, sudden lighting changes, minor audience interaction, mental illness/memory loss, violence, familial abuse

Suitable for ages: 16 and over

See venue page for accessibility information.

18 August 2025 7.30pm

Old Red Lion Theatre - SHAKEFEST

Full: £15

Conc: £10

19 August 2025 7.30pm

Old Red Lion Theatre - SHAKEFEST

Full: £15

Conc: £10

20 August 2025 7.30pm

Old Red Lion Theatre - SHAKEFEST

Full: £15

Conc: £10

21 August 2025 7.30pm

Old Red Lion Theatre - SHAKEFEST

Full: £15

Conc: £10



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