Monday January 20- Thursday January 23 2025
7:30pm
Lear's Shadow
Colin Hurley presents
A mischievous, engaging reflection on Shakespeare’s great domestic tragedy.
Devised and Performed by Colin Hurley
“A superb one-man performance. Throughout the 70-minute performance Hurley captivates.”
Theatre and Arts Review ****
A man in a dressing gown shuffles into the space carrying a box. Out of the box pour the objects, people, wrongs, jokes, mistakes, laughter and regrets that make up a life.
Over the next seventy minutes he is swept up by moments on the path that brought him here, to this great stage of fools: the loss of three daughters, the loss of his knights, the loss of his fool, the loss of his wits… oh, and the storm. Don’t forget the storm. When The Rain Came.
Content warning: this piece includes vivid representations of Very Poor Parenting
Audience responses to ‘Lear’s Shadow’:
“..a mad genius”
“…on the edge of my seat”
“Beautiful.”
“a wizard”
“Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant.”
Monday January 20, 7:30pm
Tuesday January 21, 7:30pm
Wednesday January 22, 7:30pm
Thursday January 23, 7:30pm
ABOUT
Colin Hurley has been a theatre actor for fifty years, is a former member of the National Theatre, and Shakespeare’s Globe, (including playing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at The Globe, in the West End and on Broadway) and the Royal Shakespeare Company (most recently as Brabantio in Othello). Colin enjoys teaching students of Classical Theatre at LAMDA, and trains and plays regularly with experimental theatre company ‘The Factory’.
USEFUL INFORMATION
Estimated running time
70 minutes
Performance times
7:30pm
Ticket prices
£15, £10 (concessions)
Concession
Full-time students, those aged under 16, senior citizens, the unwaged, members of Equity and BECTU
Access
Theatro Technis is fully wheelchair accessible. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system fitted in the main auditorium. If you have any questions or specific requests, please email boxoffice@theatrotechnis.com.
