"You can attend the world's first static cabaret, you can never get what you want — if that's what you want."

The Story of King Lear and his Fool who calls him Nuncle interweaves fragments from Shakespeare's King Lear with contemporary paranoias around desire and speech. Drawing especially from King King Lear's opening scene, we follow a couple at an impasse. Their turmoil unfolds through conversations and crises of language experienced by new characters, in new situations.

Surreal and psychoanalytic, this play turns its gaze on claustrophobic loops in conversation, the incommunicability of desire, and the spirals of paranoia and isolation this produces. At its heart, it begs the question: Does anyone want to be loved as much as they deserve?

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Produced with the support of the Freies Ensemble Jedermensch