The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing starts. Before the ice-creams in the interval.
In this new solo work, Tim Crouch draws on ideas of virtual reality to send him back to the future of the play he left. Back to a world laid waste by division and trauma; a world where the revolution will take place on a screen.
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel is a daringly unaccommodated piece of theatre that switches between scathingly funny stand-up and an audacious act of collective imagining. It’s a celebration of live performance and a skewering of the state we’re in now.
King Lear meets stand-up meets the metaverse.
This production by Tim Crouch, “one of the most important writers and theatre makers in the UK” (The Stage), opened at the Lyceum Theatre Studio, Edinburgh, during Fringe 2022 where it won a Fringe First award.
★★★★★
“Crouch is a master storyteller for our time”
The Scotsman
★★★★
“It is as if we ourselves are at the turbulent centre of King Lear”
The Guardian
Important information
Tickets:
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Running time:
70 minutes (no interval)
Age guideline:
14+
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