All at once fast-paced and thought-provoking, Lost Lear lands us into the world of Joy, a woman with dementia, who is being cared for through a method where people live inside an old memory.
Following the national and international tour of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Dan Colley and his company have turned their sights on a very (very) loose adaptation of King Lear, examining the self and that part of us that’s inaccessible to others.
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”
— King Lear, Act I Scene IV
‘Lost Lear' is about two people trying to connect over a gradually widening chasm that dementia opens up. It uses innovative theatre technology to distort our perceptions of reality and explore 'King Lear's' themes of reconciliation and the mercurial nature of the truth. Our adaptation focuses on the heartbreaking family drama of 'Lear' that has a lot to offer our dislocated times in which sometimes the people closest to us, seem to live in completely different realities. It is essentially a play about two people who are trying, and mostly failing, to talk to each other.’
Dan Colley, director
This play used audio visual elements to create effect and form set pieces and scenes. For example a projector being used to create background, a live camera on stage that recorded live projections onto the screen.
This is a collection of taxonomy terms that allow a type of immersive or XR performance to be categorised.