N.C. Stage to host Nomad Theatrical Company out of New York for upcoming series

Jason Sandford

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Press release here:

North Carolina Stage Company hosts an acclaimed New York theatre company as part of its Catalyst Series, July 7-10, 2011. Nomad Theatrical Company presents The Fool’s Lear, a world premiere by Randy Neale, inspired by Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear.  

Nomad Theatrical Company comes to Asheville after gaining acclaim at the Piccolo Spoleto theatre festival in Charleston. “…it is the acting of these two prodigiously talented brothers that make this show a wonder to behold!” -Charleston Today.  

This funny and poignant new play tells the tale of King Lear and his Fool, as they leave the pages of William Shakespeare’s famed play. Filled with hopeful plans, they enter into a stormy crisis of identity: The Fool desperately tries to hold on to the one power by which he has always defined himself, his ability to make the King laugh; The King abdicates his Kingship, ashamed of the tyrant Father he has become.  Who are they after all?  A Clown and a King, a Servant and his Master, a Father and his unacknowledged Son, or an Old Man suffering dementia and his reluctant Care Giver?  

Since 2004, North Carolina Stage Company’s Catalyst Series has played host to a diverse line-up of theatre, dance, comedy, burlesque and performance art. The productions in the Catalyst Series are chosen for their excellence and to complement the theatre’s Mainstage Season of plays,