About This Show

The gut-wrenching devastation of Lear encompasses more than one man’s trajectory through power and hubris; it is an affecting, unflinching chronicle of a family as that family disintegrates around the mental illness of its patriarch. To add a deeply personal dimension to Shakespeare’s themes of madness, frailty, and love, this production is set in a memory care facility. The show invites you to experience, in the midst of tragedy, the healing and transcendent nature of great art.

Show Details

Running Time: 2hr 40min (1 intermission)
Dates: First Preview: February 12, 2017 Opening Night: February 18, 2017 Final Performance: May 6, 2017

Theatermania Review

| | March 6, 2017
A Noise Within’s artistic directors bring Shakespeare’s towering tragedy to Pasadena.

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