Love YouMore

This contemporary reinvention of King Lear is a darkly funny play about sisterhood, memory, and what remains when family fades. Do you have siblings? Are you the favorite? No? Are you sure? A play about three sisters (but actually only two sisters) being sisterly – and figuring out what that means when you’re all that’s left. Cordelia has returned home from college. Lear wants her to stay longer, but she prefers to return to her studies. Lear is uncomfortable with this, and wants his daughter close by. Lear hides his physical deterioration from her, till he has no choice but to tell her. Goneril takes care of Lear’s failing body, while Cordelia continues to focus on her studies. Lear passes away, and Goneril and Cordelia both do not know how to continue having a relationship with each other after the only thing connecting them is gone. Cordelia has fond experiences of Lear, while Goneril’s are mostly negative. They attempt to heal their fractured relationship, with mixed results.