The minimalism of the scenic means used, the restraint in the display of the director’s ego, and at the same time the perfection and awareness of the stage and the sensitivity to the issue of the play’s communicativeness mean that the author’s intentions come through more clearly in her productions than elsewhere.

“Few actors have dared to play this character, which has the format of a Michelangelo figure,” wrote G. T. di Lampedusa. Mirosław Zbrojewicz will play the lead role – which has been created by artists of the highest calibre (in Poland, among others, Gustaw Holoubek, Jerzy Trela, Andrzej Seweryn, Daniel Olbrychski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz). The rest of the cast will be filled by women, which is both a perverse reversal of the Elizabethan tradition and a play on the stereotypes of the ‘masculine’, patriarchal culture of which King Lear is undoubtedly the embodiment, and whose disintegration we are seeing today.