A Deconstruction Based on the Text of Shakespeare's King Lear

In the spring of 2007, Gardner-Webb University Theater mounted a daring postmodern deconstruction of Shakespeare's play King Lear entitled LEAR ReLoaded, written and directed by Scot Lahaie.

This retelling of the King Lear myth explores the weak dualities of god/man and blessing/cursing in order to underline the medieval mindset of the original work and reposition the narrative as a post-modern dramatic event. Although the play is a derivative work, it preserves much of the Bard’s original language.