Sunday, July 19, 2020

King Lear With Sheep, a mostly wool production of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Image: Nick Morris
"My friend Heather, a director, wants to stage a King Lear in London, and has asked me produce it. She’s been trying to put it on in Massachusetts without much luck as for reasons of hygiene theatre owners are turning her down. The nub of it is that the play stars one man and eight sheep. It is suggested that the US economy depends on beef, and perhaps finds sheep a little threatening."
Read more: The Morning News

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