Marketing materials – King Lear

Marketing materials for King Lear (2006), adapted and directed by David Tse Ka-Shing and performed by Yellow Earth Theatre and Shanghai Dramatic Centre as part of the RSC’s Complete Works Festival. The materials include press listings and a flyer in English and Simplified Chinese.

Lear hands over control of his global business empire to his daughters. In his Shanghai penthouse, he asks them to justify their inheritance. The older sisters flatter their father in elegant Chinese but English educated Cordelia, no longer fluent in her father’s tongue, says “Nothing” and the loss of face sends Lear into a spiral of fury and madness.

Presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the Complete Works Festival, this bold UK premiere of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy is given an exciting modern spin with Britain’s award winning YET and China’s contemporary SDAC, featuring Chinese movie star Zhou Yemang as Lear. Using video, music and aerial work, this version addresses the miscommunication that arises from migration and Lear’s search for Taoist enlightenment.

In English and Mandarin with English subtitles.