Willow Globe’s favourite storyteller returns with King Lear Retold
With a passionate command of Shakespeare’s verse and startlingly powerful physicality, Debs Newbold’s storytelling will catapult you deep into the world of Shakespeare's epic tragedy in King Lear Retold.
Tell me my daughters, which of you...doth love us most?
An old king, afraid to be old. A daughter abandoned for speaking plainly. Two sisters warped by ill-treatment. A kingdom in turmoil. When Lear resigns his position by dividing his kingdom in three, he puts an outrageous test to his daughters. Their answers are not all that he expected. What he discovers about himself he does not wish to know.
Deeply felt and often uproariously funny; King Lear Retold makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone in a bold and compelling performance that has all the power and grace of the original text, presented in a charismatic, thoroughly modern style. Created for a sell-out show at Hay Literary Festival, toured internationally and performed to acclaim at Shakespeare’s Globe, this is a thrilling, compelling solo performance.
“Spellbinding and wonderful” – Hay Literary Festival
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Newbold is a master of words and space” – Views From the Gods
★ ★ ★ ★ “she pulls down the spirit of Shakespeare” - StageTalk Magazine
Tickets:
Adults £15, U16s £7.50, Family (2 adults, 2 U16s) £37.50
This show is supported by Arts Council Wales Night Out scheme
Debs Newbold - storyteller, theatre maker.
Debs Newbold is a multi-award winning performance storyteller who creates fresh, playful work that gets deep under the skin.
Debs is a passionate and skilled performer with a gift for bringing the epic out of the everyday. She has made and performed work for the Royal Opera House, the BBC, Hay Festival and the RSC as well as Shakespeare's Globe where she has a long association. She also takes her work to theatres, festival stages and community spaces all over the world.
Debs’ work spans myth, legend and new writing and has seen her described as “a master of words and space” (Views From the Gods) and “sublime, a consummate performer” (Sam Lee).
Her genre-defying collaborations with internationally renowned director John Wright (Told by an Idiot) have helped re-define contemporary storytelling, resulting in two highly acclaimed shows; the award winning Lost In Blue, and Under Her Skin. Her one-woman re-tellings of Shakespeare’s tragedies have toured internationally and helped create an entire strand of storytelling work within Shakespeare’s Globe, where Debs trains new storytellers for the Globe stage. Debs’ third collaboration with John Wright, Outrageous Fortune was recently filmed and will tour live in 2024.
