Freehold’s Engaged Theatre Summer Tour: King Lear

Freehold will tour Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Robin Lynn Smith, to unique locations across the greater Puget Sound area.

Since 2003, Freehold’s Engaged Theatre has toured Shakespeare productions to communities in non-traditional sites. This year the tour will perform for the general public as well as for a number of underserved populations including Joint Base/Lewis McChord, Washington Corrections Center for Women, Monroe Correctional Center for Men, Harborview Medical Center and Echo Glen Children’s Center, a juvenile detention center.

There will be 5 free public performances: July 2, 6:30 pm, Seward Park, Amphitheatre, July 12, 13, 14 at 8:00 pm and July 15 at 4:00 pm) at Seattle University’s Lee Center for the Arts, 901 12th Avenue. Tickets are Free but Reservations are Requested.

When asked why she chose King Lear for this year’s tour, director Robin Lynn Smith responded “I am inspired by the human struggle to know ourselves, and the attempt to look fiercely at the truth of our existence -framed by limits of isolation, separateness, bewilderment, blindness; and the limits of our time here: aging and death. And it’s a great story.”