- Saturday 27 Sep 2025, 7pm to 9.30pm
- Thursday 2 Oct 2025, 7pm to 9.30pm
- Friday 3 Oct 2025, 7pm to 9.30pm
- Saturday 4 Oct 2025, 7pm to 9.30pm
27 September 2025
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.
Hundreds of years in the future, Briton is a dilapidated nation torn by global warming and war, as climate and political change weather 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?
The run time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, with a 15-minute interval. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. Please be aware that strobe lighting will be used in this production. This show is recommended for 13+ for violence.
Queen Lear is proudly a profit share production.
Join us as we bring life to a wasteland, with an original score, robots, talented actors, laser guns, intricate language, and spectacular visual effects.
Hundreds of years in the future, Briton is a dilapidated nation torn by global warming and war, as climate and political change weather 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?
The run time is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes, with a 15-minute interval. The venue is fully wheelchair accessible. Please be aware that strobe lighting will be used in this production. This show is recommended for 13+ for violence.
Queen Lear is proudly a profit share production.
Location
Lyttelton Arts Factory, 1 Sumner Road, Lyttelton
Lyttelton Arts Factory, 1 Sumner Road, Lyttelton
Event contact
Hwyl Theatre hwyltheatre@gmail.com events.humanitix.com/queen-lear www.facebook.com/events/1827513638121381Other events you may be interested in
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