Lear

By Edward Bond

Directors: Sarah Davey-Hull and Martin Wylde

Designer: Kate Driver

Performed by MA Acting students

Edward Bond's violent and bloody play echoes Shakespeare's great tragedy, with its personal and political power struggles, but also Chekhov's Three Sisters. Bond's passions anticipate the work of Kane and Ravenhill.  Today a play about an aging and out-of-date leader brought down by a people's revolution reverberates with the seismic eruptions occurring in the Middle East and North Africa.

'Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.' Lear

What happens when walls are erected and how easily can they be torn down?