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LEAR AND EXIT THE KING | NATIONAL THEATRE SCHOOL OF CANADA
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Exit the King is an absurdist drama by Eugene Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco’s “Berenger Cycle”. Berenger appears as a depressed and insecure everyman who is prone to sentimentality. In Exit the King, he is the solipsistic and belligerent King Berenger the First who was apparently at one point able to command nature and force others to obey his will.
Lear by Young Jean Lee is a collision between Shakespeare’s King Lear, Sesame Street, and Young Jean Lee’s own take on the theme of dealing with a father’s mortality, Lee’s Lear focuses not on the aging Lear and Gloucester, but rather on their adult children who turned their backs on their fathers’ suffering. An absurdist tragedy about familial piety, despair, and the end of life.
The double bill focuses on the absurdist “tradition” and the form as a political response to the times.
Tickets will be available at the door only, starting 60 minutes before each performance.
