A family. A fortune. A fight for power.
Lear is, at its core, a family drama. Just one where the stakes happen to be an entire kingdom.
Getting older, Lear decides it’s time to step back and hand her kingdom down to her three daughters. But when she asks them to tell her how much they love her, the answers she gets set off a chain of events nobody can stop. What starts as family fallout quickly turns into something much darker: a brutal fight for power, loyalty and survival.
Running alongside Lear‘s story is another family in freefall. Gloucester, one of Lear‘s closest allies, is caught between his two sons, one loyal, one willing to do whatever it takes to come out on top. As both families spiral, old resentments and betrayals come spilling out, and no one gets out unscathed.
This is not a story about crowns and kingdoms. It is about parents and children, brothers and sisters, loyalty and betrayal, and one truth-teller brave enough to laugh at all of it.
Lear is over 400 years old, but it asks questions that feel strangely current. Who’s really in your corner? What do you owe your family, and what do they owe you? What happens when love and power become tangled together?
If you’ve never seen Shakespeare before, this is a great place to start. It’s messy, funny, heartbreaking and completely gripping.
Come not knowing anything. Leave thinking about everything.
The House of Lear
The House of Gloucester
To guide you through the world of Lear, the character constellation below reveals the play’s entwined families, alliances, and duties.
Don’t miss your chance to see this bold new production of Lear during its limited four week run (04 July – 01 August 2026).