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Production Description

Award winning web series based on King Lear created in partnership with CRISIS and supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Free to view but donations to CRISIS are encouraged via Just Giving.

Winner of the OnComm for best series at the 2022 Off West End Awards.

>> Watch the full playlist | Watch the full playlist with subtitles

For those of you who are curious about the parts of the play that are not in our web-series, and would like to see how the episodes correlate with the Acts and Scenes in the Arden version of King Lear, click on the episode link below:

Ep 1: https://www.andtomorrow.co.uk/index.php/ep1

Ep 2: https://www.andtomorrow.co.uk/index.php/current-shows?id=15

Ep 3: https://www.andtomorrow.co.uk/index.php/current-shows?id=16

Ep 4: https://www.andtomorrow.co.uk/index.php/current-shows?id=17

Ep 5: https://www.andtomorrow.co.uk/index.php/current-shows?id=18

Written by William Shakespeare

Directed by Anthony Shrubsall

Cast | Edmund Dehn

Cinematography, Sound Recording & Editing by Charles Teton

Music by Zelida Gordon

Produced by Sarah Lawrie for And Tomorrow Theatre Company

Press & Marketing by Mobius Industries

Production Assistants | Louie Renna, Antonia Sewell and Wally Sewell

In partnership with Elysium Theatre Company & Scenesaver, with thanks to Denville Hall.

Episodes were released weekly with and without subtitles in summer 2021. @andtomorrowtc | #LearAlone | www.andtomorrow.co.uk

Lear Alone uses just King Lear’s lines from the first folio of Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy to explore themes of loneliness, ageing and homelessness: a study of one man’s vulnerability as he confronts and negotiates a digital world. This disenfranchised Lear’s relationship to the text, and to the viewer, will be determined by the phone in his hand, the noise on the streets and the disturbance inside his head.

All five episodes will remain available to view until 31^st March 2022 so that people can watch the piece in its entirety.

Figures from the Office of National Statistics in 2019 showed that the number of older people in England seeking help for homelessness had risen by 39 per cent in the previous five years: a growing societal problem forced even further into the public consciousness as a result of Covid-19. In partnering with CRISIS, and by presenting the piece digitally, and for free, And Tomorrow Theatre Company hope to reach beyond a regular theatregoing audience, and to start new conversations around preconceptions of homelessness, particularly in relation to older people.

Review: The Reviews Hub | London Pub Theatres | North West End UK

Censorship:Universal

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Lear Alone

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Runtime: N/A mins Genres: Drama, Shakespeare Production Companies: And Tomorrow Theatre Company, Elysium Theatre Company Directors: Anthony Shrubsall Performer: Edmund Dehn

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