King Lear has been performed thousands of times, but Tadashi Suzuki is determined to tell its story with his own unique spin. An edited, cut and rearranged version of the original play, Suzuki plays on the themes of tragedy, delusion and betrayal by telling a story of an old man hours away from death who sits and listens to his nurse read him the tale of King Lear. Suzuki takes this classic tale fuses his trademark style to create a narrative that is both familiar, bold and new.