Two stories unfold hand in hand—Lear’s and Gloucester’s...

For them, everything around is nothing more than the incomprehensible echoes of a vanished world.

The world that falls apart in this production cannot be reassembled as it is in Shakespeare’s text. All the characters become bleeding trunks—without branches, without roots, crippled orphans... Human trunks that refuse to accept the absurdity of a world where life is lived only to give life, to kill, and to die. A brother will abandon the brother he has killed, and there will be no new king. The stage remains empty... just like the world itself.

When Lear loses his mind, he meets the blind Gloucester—these two human stumps already know everything there is to know about themselves and about the world. Gloucester takes Lear’s boots, holds them tightly in his arms and kisses them… perhaps as a final memory of the world that once was.