Queen Lear

Hwyl Theatre's Queen Lear is a sci-fi queer epic for the ages. Join us as we bring life to a wasteland, with an original score, robots, talented actors, laser guns, intricate language, and spectacular visual effects.

Queen Lear will be staged at Lyttelton Arts Factory on 25 - 27 September & 2 - 4 October, with a 7pm start each night. The run time is approximately 2hr 15m, with a 15m interval. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. Please be aware strobe lighting will be used in this production. This show is recommended for 13+ for violence.

Hundreds of years in the future, Briton is a dilapidated nation torn by global warming and war, as climate and political change weathers the already unstable country. Queen Lear grows tired of ruling this increasingly volatile land, and makes a dramatic decision that she believes will ensure stability for generations to come. Queen Lear bequeaths the responsibility of governance to her children, in exchange for the answer to one question: which of them loves her the most? Will the division of the country lead to further strife, or keep her people above the advancing waterline? Can Queen Lear withstand the storms of her own making? Or is everything she has built her life on… a lie?

Queen Lear is proudly a profit share production.