Lost Lear
$29.35
- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2025
Summary
Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2025
“You have to look at me now and tell me I’m good, that this is good … That the bits of you that I can’t see are changed, charged, churned by the bits of me that you can’t see.”
A moving and darkly comic remix of Shakespeare’s play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia, who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear.
Joy’s delicately maintained reality is upended by the a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350596368 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350596361 |
| Author: | Dan Colley |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Methuen Drama |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Modern Plays |
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Dan Colley
Dan Colley is a Creative Director and Producer specialising in ensemble-devised theatre, young audiences theatre, comedy, community participation, and outdoor spectacle. He is a former Artistic Director of Collapsing Horse and is former Co-Artistic Director of the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. He was Producer/Facilitator of Dublin Fringe’s birthday project “TWENTY FIRST” and is a former Fringe LAB resident artist. Dan trained as a Youth Theatre Facilitator with Youth Theatre Ireland. He is a member of the Project Arts Centre, is Theatre Artist in Residence with Riverbank Arts Centre, and is on the Expert Advisory Group of Creative Ireland: Pillar One.
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