King Lear and his Cook

This is a play about the relationship with power that draws more than eloquent parallels to the reality.

Alexei Slapovsky’s play ‘King Lear and his Cook’ is a story about power, its nature and consequences. About illusion and fear, about blindness and deafness of the powerful. And about the fact that the greatest horror is not from outside, it is from within.

In Shakespeare’s original tragedy, King Lear dies. In Slapovsky’s modern play, the eponymous character Lear is not awaited by death, but by eternal sleep, oblivion.

The play as an occasion for conversation and an attempt to find answers to questions about the relationship between man and power. Does a dictator have the right to decide for everyone? Can he really do everything? Can he break any law in the name of higher goals?

Warning! The play was written in 2021, there are sensitive parallels to reality.

Director: Anna Perelešina
Actors: Alexei Dedoborsch and Egor Morozov

Disclaimer: The performance contains profanity (1 word).

A Q&A will take place following the performance.

Discounts: school pupils, students, severely disabled persons, senior citizens, Munich Pass holders, JunOst members. Companions of persons with disabilities: free of charge.

Online sales are closed, but a limited number of tickets can still be purchased at the evening box office at Einstein Kultur.